Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the new version of portage has customizable compression ... this is cool as 
> now people can do bzip/gzip/whatever
> 
> the downside is that it breaks with packages that assume everything is 
> compressed with gzip ... so here is a list of common things ebuilds should 
> not be doing:
> doman foo.1.gz
> dosym foo.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/fooie.1.gz
> dodoc README.gz
> etc...
> -mike

Wouldn't it be better to make doman gunzip and recompress until packages
have been fixed. Now users are getting broken man pages with recent portage.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163954

Regards,
Petteri

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