Hi Akim,
thanks for the feature request, and sorry for the delay.
* Akim Demaille wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 01:44:34PM CEST:
> Currently Automake accepts happily such a variable name, but it does
> not use it (the files are not dist'ed). I agree EXTRA_DIST is fine,
> but I'm used to being able to use dist_noinst_* as a kind of
> over-specification.
What would an uninstalled man page be useful for?
FWIW, the current handle_man_pages looks quite inefficient
(haven't measured yet), it might make sense to rewrite it
using Automake::Variable::variables ('MANS').
Thanks,
Ralf
