[OE-core] [PATCH 4/5] ncurses: Uncompress man pages

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 16:42 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG0B+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org>
> writes:
> 
> > If the man pages are compressed, then they cause file conflicts between
> > the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the package.
> 
> Patching the buildsystem to use 'gzip --no-name' might be a better
> solution than uncompressing the man pages.
> 
> Alternatively, fixing/changing man page compression should be done in a
> central class instead per recipe.

I guess the other question that springs to mind is why the manpages are
in the same package as the binaries anyway.  Surely they ought to be in
the -doc package, which is presumably wordsize-agnostic, in which case
there oughtn't to be any conflict in the first place.

p.