#10822 closed defect (wontfix)
BUG: Don't gzip man pages
| Reported by: | macports@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | base | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | macports@… | |
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Description
It's inconsistent with the OS and confounds some software, all for a few megabytes.
Change History (15)
comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by tobypeterson
comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by markd@…
| Cc: | macports@… added |
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| Summary: | Don't gzip man pages → BUG: Don't gzip man pages |
comment:3 Changed 18 years ago by macports@…
The most important to me is Spotlight, which is limited to one importer per file type.
comment:4 Changed 18 years ago by pipping@…
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:5 Changed 18 years ago by pipping@…
| Milestone: | → Needs developer review |
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| Resolution: | wontfix |
| Status: | closed → reopened |
comment:6 Changed 18 years ago by jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)
| Owner: | changed from darwinports-bugs@… to macports-dev@… |
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| Status: | reopened → new |
comment:7 Changed 18 years ago by pipping@…
i fail to see why one'd use spotlight for manpages. especially since no one opens manpages from anything other than a terminal.
comment:8 Changed 17 years ago by jmpalacios (Juan Manuel Palacios)
| Milestone: | Needs developer review → MacPorts base bugs |
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Milestone Needs developer review deleted
comment:9 follow-up: 12 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…
| Priority: | Nice to have → Low |
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| Resolution: | → invalid |
| Status: | new → closed |
| Type: | enhancement → defect |
| Version: | 1.3.2 |
From what I can read from other developers, we will continue to gzip manpages.
comment:10 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…
| Resolution: | invalid |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
comment:11 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
comment:12 Changed 17 years ago by macports@…
| Resolution: | wontfix |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
Replying to pipping@macports.org:
i fail to see why one'd use spotlight for manpages. especially since no one opens manpages from anything other than a terminal.
- man -K is slow and blocks on input for every. single. matching. file.
- source:/trunk/dports/aqua/ManOpen/Portfile
comment:13 Changed 17 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)
| Resolution: | → wontfix |
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| Status: | reopened → closed |
FYI: As of Leopard also Apple ships gzipped man pages.
a) If you really need a fast full text search for man pages (e.g index based), go to the man people and ask there.
b) From ManOpen's description: "it will display the output from the `man' command-line program." man can read gzipped man pages, so would ManOpen, right? I can't test as it does not build for me.
I don't want to start a reopen/close war by closing this again, but we are not going to change anything.
comment:14 Changed 16 years ago by tobypeterson
| Milestone: | MacPorts base bugs → MacPorts Future |
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Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted
comment:15 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Milestone: | MacPorts Future |
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What software does it "confound" ?