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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