From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx.stare.cz (mx.stare.cz [79.98.77.229]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id d272b782 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 02:47:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from www.stare.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.stare.cz (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 215bf264 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2017 08:47:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 08:47:02 +0100 From: Jan Stary To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: supporting bzip Message-ID: <20170109074701.GA33762@www.stare.cz> References: <20170109065403.GA13515@www.stare.cz> <20170109074249.GG4271@athene.usta.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170109074249.GG4271@athene.usta.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) On Jan 09 08:42:49, schwarze@usta.de wrote: > > Is it because mdocml does not support bzip? > > Yes. Neither does it support piping through external unpackers. > > > I don't know why any system would bzip it's manpages, > > but apparently Gentoo does. > > Exactly. It is completely stupid nowadays. Just tell them to stop > doing such nonsense and install uncompressed. > Compressing that stuff just makes life harder for absolutely no benefit > whatsoever. > > > Are there any plans to support bzip beside the ubuquituous gzip? > > (I understand if you don't want that in your code.) > > No plans, and some opposition to trying. Understood. I will try to persuade them to stop doing that. Jan -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv