Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for compression handling

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 
> > If there's an inclusion list and an exclusion list, there's only a
> > need to delete things from the exclusion list if the exclusion list
> > has bad initial values, and never any need to delete things from the
> > inclusion list. And since reliably rewriting links in HTML when
> > compressing is at best tricky and at worst impossible (think
> > JavaScript navigationy things), is there ever going to be any need
> > for removing from the exclusion list?
> 
> Right, probably there isn't. So we will need only two options:
> 
>    - "docompress" (without option or with option "-a"): add paths
>      (directories or files) to the inclusion list
>    - "docompress -x": add paths to the exclusion list

Globbing support?  Also I assume compliant implementations do their 
updating between install/preinst?

~harring

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