Bugzilla Bug 172496

<Mr_Bones_> vapier: so you could set something like ECOMPRESSDIR_IGNORE="html
pdfs pictures" and have ecompressdir ignore those dirs
<vapier> Mr_Bones_: i added support for ignoring of whole directories, hadnt
thought about doing that as well
<vapier> sounds feasible, but i'd do it bash style ECOMPRESS_MASK="html *.pdf
*.gif"
<vapier> then you could do use regular bash expressions

Status?

*** Bug 232843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think we should do like antarus suggested and use the `file` command to
separate out the text files and just compress those since generally those are
the only ones that we really like to have compressed.

Created an attachment (id=163003) [details]
Add new PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES variable.

Add a PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES config variable which is used to filter
ecompress arguments. This allows the user to control compression of files
installed dodoc, excluding files with specific suffix patterns. The current
default value includes all of the suffixes that are recognized by dohtml, as
well as pdf.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think we should do like antarus suggested and use the `file` command to
> separate out the text files and just compress those since generally those are
> the only ones that we really like to have compressed.

I ruled out this approach since the `file` output would be annoying to parse
(portable?) and we might want to exclude things like html files too.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=163003) [edit] [details]
> Add new PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES variable.

This is released in 2.2_rc9.