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Bug 307787 - please add support for .xz files to man.conf / sys-apps/man
Summary: please add support for .xz files to man.conf / sys-apps/man
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 302380
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2010-03-04 17:55 UTC by Peter Gantner (a.k.a. nephros)
Modified: 2010-03-14 23:17 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Gantner (a.k.a. nephros) 2010-03-04 17:55:56 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #205147 +++

Please add support for .xz compressed man pages to man.conf:

.xz /usr/bin/xz -c -d

Background:

I can set PORTAGE_COMPRESS to use xz from lzma-utils. This AFAICS makes portage compress man pages with xz, which subsequently can't be read by man because of the missing decompressor in man.conf.

Seeing that sys-apps/man already has lzma support and xz is the successor to lzma I think this change would make sense.
Comment 1 Wormo (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-03-14 23:17:36 UTC 
Already done :)
Try man-1.6f-r4

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 302380 ***