[pacman-dev] uncompressed man pages

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at 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?).