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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 12:54:59 +0000
From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk>
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Subject: Has NO_MANCOMPRESS been silently depreciated?
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Hi,


For many years I have set NO_MANCOMPRESS (and before that NOMANCOMPRESS)
in /etc/make.conf on all my machines.  In the last few weeks I have
noticed that this setting is being ignored by port updates.  Has this
setting been silently depreciated?


Cheers,
       Nick.
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