On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 05:50:49PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
the tidy_install makepkg function is composed of 5 parts : 1) Removing info/doc controlled by docs option 2) compressing man pages 3) stripping debugging symbols controlled by strip 4) removing libtool controlled by libtool 5) removing empty directories controlled by emptydirs
So as you can see, all steps can be enabled / disabled with an option except step 2) It turns out it would be useful to control that too. For example, the zsh package has a special zshall man page that includes all others, but this only works with uncompressed man page. Working around this automatic makepkg compression is really awful and ugly : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4580
So would it be acceptable to add a "compress" option or something?
+1 from me when you put it this way. Throw it in the right array, make the default compress, and off we go.
I agree too, makes a lot of sense. But if the option were actually "compress", then it might be confusing (maybe someone expects !compress to output an uncompressed tar?).
Ok what about compressman ? It doesn't sound very nice, but it's more explicit, and I wanted to try keep it small like the others :)