Hi John, On Mon Jan 27 2020, John Kacur wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Kurt Kanzenbach wrote: >> I'm just wondering about this. Why are the man pages compressed in the >> Makefile? Actually most package management systems compress the man >> pages themselves. Users may want to use bz2 or something else. >> >> In fact, I have a patch on top of rt-tests v1.6 in Gentoo which removes >> the compression, because portage complains about it. >> >> Thanks, >> Kurt >> > > I think it's because man pages are generally installed as .gz files on > most distros. Although the Makefile is designed to work well with package > management systems, it should also work correctly stand alone. > > If you want to submit a patch that would optionally use a different kind > of compression or otherwise handle things without breaking the current > defaults, I would likely accept it. Sounds good. I'll come up with a patch and keeping the existing defaults. Thanks, Kurt
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