Re: Stop compressing manual pages
On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 11:06:34AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
The rationale in Debian for compressing documentation in general is for
embedded systems and other small installations, and it applies to just
about anything that can be safely compressed (manual pages are only one
example)
In embedded and other small installations, I'd prefer everyting under
/usr/share/man just excluded from installations on the package manager
level, but I never have been able to find out how to rub dpkg
--path-exclude the right way to do that. While we're at it, exclude
everything under /usr/share/doc with the exception of
/usr/share/doc/*/copyright*
Having html docs or others compressed in /usr/share/doc is another pet
peeve that makes it harder to use the on-disk docs.
Greetings
Marc
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