25.11.2005, 0:58:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petteno" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that > | we can make it a sort of rule). > | How should manpages that are generated be managed? > | > | The common sense and looking to other ebuilds would say to always > | build man pages, but when it asks me to install something like > | docbook-sgml-utils, I'm tempted not to do that ;)
> man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). They're > not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't get > a USE flag. > Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use > ! features_noman ? ( ) ... That is all fine and dandy, but if you search bugzilla for USE=doc related bugs, you might think twice before adding yet another inevitably broken thing to portage. docbook-sgml-utils & co. is extremely fragile and buggy thing. -- Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;)
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