On Sunday 04 February 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Mike Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > Fine. If I have a slotted package, every slot having > > > ${PN}.foo-${SLOT}.1.gz and I want people to be able to call `man > > > ${PN}`, how should that be done? > > > > You could look at eselect-vi[1] for how it handles this case, > > specifically the set_man_symlink() function. > > Thanks for the link, I found a solution myself, but nice to see a > different approach. 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 ? this works for every other package ive been fixing -mike
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