Thanks Albert and Daniel for the replies. Daniel Pielmeier writes: > 2008/10/30 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल : >> 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...? > I tink there is the PORTAGE_COMPRESS variable. > Set PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" in make.conf and portage will not compress > documentation. > There is also PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES which you can extend > to your needs. Currently it defaults to > PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" ,---- | % emerge --info libxcb | Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 x86_64) | ================================================================= | System Settings | ================================================================= | System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 | Timestamp of tree: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:45:01 +0000 | distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] | ccache version 2.4 [enabled] | app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 | dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 | dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 | dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 | dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 | dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 | sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 | sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 | sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 | sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 | sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 | sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 | sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 | sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 | virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" | CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" | CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -mmmx -msse2 -msse3 -ggdb" | CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" | CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/share/config /var/bind" | CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d | /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release | /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" | CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -mmmx -msse2 -msse3 -ggdb" | DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" | FEATURES="buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks fakeroot | fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned | sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv | usersandbox" | GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ | ftp://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/ | ftp://mirror.bih.net.ba/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/" | LANG="en_US.UTF-8" | LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" | LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style,both" | LINGUAS="hi en en_US" | MAKEOPTS="-j3" | PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" | PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times | --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 | --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" | PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" | PORTDIR="/usr/portage" | PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/perl-experimental | /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/emacs | /usr/portage/local/layman/xemacs /usr/portage/local/layman/haskell | /usr/local/portage" | SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" | USE="X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amd64 ao artworkextra | audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo | caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dirac djvu doc dri dvd | dvdr emacs exif ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gnome | gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal hashstyle htmlhandbook | iconv idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde latex lcms ldap | libcaca libffi libnotify libsamplerate loop-aes lzma mad maildir midi | mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap musepack mysql ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl | nptlonly offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre perl plasma png | policykit postgres pppd pth pulseaudio python qt4 readline reflection | ruby schroedinger sdl session sndfile speex spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 | ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd tetex tex theora tiff | truetype unicode urandom vim-syntax vnc vorbis xattr xcb xcomposite xfce | xft xinetd xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv zeroconf zlib" | ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy | dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat | linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm | softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias | authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default | authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav | dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache | filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic | negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack | vhost_alias" CAMERAS="spca50x" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev | keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk | hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="hi en en_US" | USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel v4l vesa dummy" | Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, | PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS | | ================================================================= | Package Settings | ================================================================= | x11-libs/libxcb-1.1 was built with the following: | CFLAGS="-O2 -g -ggdb -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe" | CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g -ggdb -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -pipe" | | >>> Attempting to run pkg_info() for 'x11-libs/libxcb-1.1' | * Adjusting permissions for FEATURES=userpriv: '/tmp/tmpdY9i9w/ccache' | * pkg_info() is not defined: 'libxcb-1.1.ebuild' `---- Any ideas why PORTAGE_COMPRESS_* aren't set on my box. BtW, how do I see what PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES is set to. Thanks in advance, Ashish Shukla -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- % dig +short cname cdac.in @::1 ms.gov.in