[pacman-dev] uncompressed man pages

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

zipman ?

-Dan