the following functions are labeled as allowing optional compression: dodoc doinfo doman this prevents deterministic behavior by these commands so ebuilds cannot rely on the resulting outlook of the respective directories in $D if package managers want to support optional compression, they do it after src_install
Portage used to compress in doman... Was this changed sufficiently long ago to consider it no longer supported?
the current stable versions of portage no longer compress in the binaries
r91.
