On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" > > > <[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 ? ( ) ... > >
> > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. > > They are very valuable features and quite easy to use without mucking > with INSTALL_MASK. I'm against this change without some justification. further investigation shows that you can't simply get rid of these as several core ebuilds use the feature to control the creation of packages. A quick grep shows that several ebuilds do stuff like. has noman FEATURES && do_stuff openssl/glibc/gcc/dhcp/boa/gdb to name a few that take advantage of the no{man,info,doc} FEATURES= already. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list