On 07/09/2016 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on > app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The > trouble is that ronn is a Ruby program and pulls in a shedload of > dependencies, just to install man pages.
Ruby packages (besides dev-lang/ruby itself) install quickly, like perl packages, so this isn't a *huge* deal. They can also be removed afterwards with a depclean. > It seems to me to make more sense to put pre-built man pages in > ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the > correct or acceptable way to deal with this? It's up to you. If they release a new version every day, it's going to get real annoying to regenerate the man pages each time. Also keep an eye on the size of the man pages. We have a soft limit of "a few kilobytes" for things in FILESDIR, which may mean you'd have to upload the man pages somewhere else and include that in SRC_URI. Doing so makes the regeneration process even more annoying. Nevertheless, I've had to pre-build man pages for a few packages myself.