From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kvk5q-0001gs-EW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:50:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0761BE0328; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out1.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.71]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B294AE0328 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6CF82A8 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:50:21 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <490A7267.1070808@netspace.net.au> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:20:15 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ? References: <878ws6urjb.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <490A3A40.1000806@netspace.net.au> <87y705lk54.fsf@chateau.d.lf> In-Reply-To: <87y705lk54.fsf@chateau.d.lf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 17f4414a-3d6d-4dc9-b547-c99177fbfdb6 X-Archives-Hash: 7d504efcc3e385d6a609172a216acaed Ashish Shukla =E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7 =E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=81=E0=A4= =95=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B2 wrote: > Iain Buchanan writes: >> Ashish Shukla =E0=A4=86=E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=80=E0=A4=B7 =E0=A4=B6=E0=A5=81=E0= =A4=95=E0=A5=8D=E0=A4=B2 wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> While trying to lookup XCB API documentation ( >>> /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/ ), I noticed that it is compressed, now >>> I'm wondering is there anyway to install that documentation in the >>> decompressed form, hmm...? > >> why? > >> less /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 >> cat /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 | bzip2 -d >> cp /usr/share/doc/libxcb/manual/blah.doc.bz2 ~/; bzip2 -d ~/blah.doc.b= z2 > > I know how to view and decompress compressed-files, but I don't want to > decompress file and but then after decompressing, I'll lose the ability > to track the file from portage's database. I still don't understand - if you know how to view a compressed file=20 "without" decompressing it, then what do you want to decompress it for? --=20 Iain Buchanan "Any excuse will serve a tyrant." -- Aesop