[pacman-dev] uncompressed man pages

[Xavier]

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 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?).
> 

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 :)