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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:41:21 +0000
From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example not found
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:50:02 -0800, Bryan Gardiner wrote:

> What about software that refers to files in /usr/share/doc?  I can't
> remember what program it was, but one I used a while back had a Help
> menu item that tried to open a manual living there, but of course the
> manual was compressed and under a different name and it couldn't be
> found.

You can, at least with HTML documentation, have it linked to a consistent
location, see DOC_SYMLINKS_DIR in man make.conf.

> It's a minor inconvenience, but should files be left
> uncompressed for cases like this?

See PORTAGE_COMPRESS and associated variables in the same man page.


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Neil Bothwick

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