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Bug 232843 - dodoc should not compress pdf's
Summary: dodoc should not compress pdf's
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 172496
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2008-07-24 15:02 UTC by Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-07-24 15:10 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2008-07-24 15:02:12 UTC 
As discussed with zmedico in #gentoo-portage, the conclusion of the conversation was that dodoc should not compress pdfs because most pdf readers cannot handle compressed pdfs AND the benefit of compressing pdfs is not that great (compression ratio).

The motivation behind this is easier ebuild writing. To get this desired behavior now, ebuild writers have to do something like: "insinto /usr/share/doc/${P}; doins *.pdf" etc and make sure that they DO NOT "dodoc *.pdf" (which may mean alot of time/effort)

Thanks,
Jeremy
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-07-24 15:10:19 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172496 ***