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From: wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:48:09
Message-Id: 87y705lk54.fsf@chateau.d.lf
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ? by Iain Buchanan
1 Iain Buchanan writes:
2 > Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
3 >> Hi all
4 >>
5 >> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation (
6 >> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now
7 >> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the
8 >> decompressed form, hmm...?
9
10 > why?
11
12 > less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2
13 > cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d
14 > cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2
15
16 I know how to view and decompress compressed-files, but I don't want to
17 decompress file and but then after decompressing, I'll lose the ability
18 to track the file from portage's database.
19
20 Ashish
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ? Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>