On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, at 10:57, Francesco Turco wrote: > Then I looked for non-zero size files only, because it makes no sense to > compress empty files. The list dropped to 9 files, belonging to 4 > different ebuilds or 3 packages: > > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz > > /usr/share/doc/libasyncns-0.8-r2/README > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.11.6/amhello-1.0.tar.gz > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meref.ps > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meref.me > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ps > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ms > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meintro.me > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meintro.ps > > Perhaps I may report these ones.
It seems that amhello-1.0.tar.gz is already present in the tarball from the distfiles directory, so it is not Portage responsible for compressing in gz format. But it would be a good thing if Portage could recompress that file in xz format instead. I don't know if this is possible. So I won't file a bug report for this, as I think it could be closed as invalid. groff-1.21-r1 installs postscript files (which are not compressible) and related files. So I don't think it's a good idea to file a report for this, too. So the only bug I decided to report is for libasyncns-0.8-r2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447936.
