Summary says it all- several ebuilds rely on it, and while I don't necessarily agree with it (or implementation), at the least having the interface specified in PMS is needed (even if the docs explicitly state ecompress* calls can be noops).
what ebuilds rely on it ? it was intended as a backend solution to unify compression handling in portage, not for ebuilds to use ...
dev-lang/python
let's differentiate here ... are there any packages using these binaries to compress stuff ? python i see using it for man page symlink updating, but we should handle that in man itself so packages can just do: echo '.so python2.5.1' > python.1
This should be a complete list. The following packages all use it for trivial stuff like mansuffix: app-misc/srm dev-lang/python media-gfx/xli media-gfx/xloadimage media-sound/aylet www-apps/viewvc And the following apparently use if for compressing stuff: dev-util/subversion sci-electronics/gerbv sci-libs/netcdf
subversion, gerbv, and netcdf should all be using prepalldocs / dodoc ... i'd open a bug to get those fixed as for the man pages, i'll have to make `man` smarter, and then we can fix those like i suggested
looks like the man code already had a TODO to implement what i proposed ... so i just went ahead and implemented it man-1.6f-r2 will allow things to work without packages having to care about how man pages are compressed. so python can do: echo '.so python2.5.1' > python.1 and when you do `man 1 python`, man will search for all the suffixed versions of 'python2.5.1' until it finds one
Almost three years have passed and nothing has happened. On the contrary, the number of packages that are using it has increased: man/doc suffix: app-cdr/cdrkit app-misc/srm media-sound/aylet compression: app-backup/bacula app-crypt/gnupg dev-vcs/subversion sci-electronics/gerbv sci-libs/netcdf Changing this to a tracker bug. I'll open separate bugs for the affected packages. @Portage team: Could a repoman check for ecompress/ecompressdir be added?
(In reply to comment #7) > @Portage team: Could a repoman check for ecompress/ecompressdir be added? Yes, it's in git now: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=5aae42eb1cd319c19e92bce890ea7eb3b7d184d7
