Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 14 Jun, Jan Vroonhof wrote about "Re: default ungziped /usr/doc/*/* ?"
> "Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com> writes:
> 
>> >>     find . -name \*.gz | xargs gunzip
>> 
>> >Of course, if he did this, he shouldn't expect the system to
>> >upgrade cleanly anymore, and worse, remocving the packages won't
>> >delete the uncompressed files.
>> 
>>     Hey, his system, he wants to mangle it instead of learning zless, zmore,
>> zgrep, etc, that's his perogative.  I'm only more than happy to help him
>> along.  ;)
> 
> It would be nice if the package system supported something like this
> (i.e. would consider both the normal and the gz version as part of the 
> package). Not all formats have "zxxx" equivalents yet (dvi comes to
> mind).
> 
> Jan
> 
> 

This was discussed on debian-devel last October.  See 
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9810/msg00041.html
for the start of the thread.

Don't hold your breath on dpkg supporting both compressed and
uncompressed files.  A quote from Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> in
the thread I think sums up a number of the developers feelings on this.

       "There is no reason ever to uncompress a file (lesspipe and
 lessopen make it unnecessary). When I uncomress(sic) a file, it is done
 for a reason, and dpkg had bloody well leave it alone."


-- 
Brian 
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