"Bernd Jendrissek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not all system's man programs cope with compressed manpages. I know >> some (most? all?) GNU/Linux distributions install compressed manpages, >> I assume it's rpm/deb/... features that compress them, right? > > I assume so too. I think non-archaic rpm has some nice macros that > make building autoconfiscated packages easy. My bet would be that > those rpm macros compress the docs.
Similarly, the dh_compress program used in many Debian packages automatically finds and compresses any Info documents and manpages (and some other kinds of files) that are not already compressed. -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org
