Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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 fixingAfter others explained the problem better, I do some checking in the ebuild and live with the solution. It works. V-Li
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