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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:50:36
Message-Id: 490A7267.1070808@netspace.net.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ? by wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish Shukla =?utf-8?B?4KSG4KS24KWA4KS3IA==?= =?utf-8?B?4KS24KWB4KSV4KWN4KSy?=)
1 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
2 > Iain Buchanan writes:
3 >> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
4 >>> Hi all
5 >>>
6 >>> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation (
7 >>> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now
8 >>> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the
9 >>> decompressed form, hmm...?
10 >
11 >> why?
12 >
13 >> less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2
14 >> cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d
15 >> cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.bz2
16 >
17 > I know how to view and decompress compressed-files, but I don't want to
18 > decompress file and but then after decompressing, I'll lose the ability
19 > to track the file from portage's database.
20
21 I still don't understand - if you know how to view a compressed file
22 "without" decompressing it, then what do you want to decompress it for?
23
24 --
25 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
26
27 "Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
28 -- Aesop