>>>>> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> But my question is, WHY I shouldn't symlink to compressed man >> pages.
> uhh, because you dont know what the compressed man page is ? > what's wrong with doing `dosym foo.1 /usr/share/man/man1/boo.1` and > letting ecompressdir fix the links ? See bug #164969 <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164969> for the original issue. alternatives.eclass is called from pkg_postinst() or pkg_postrm() and at that point the man pages are already compressed. Ulrich -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
