On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:54:56 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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. > > 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? > > 1) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588324 If they are quite static (i.e. don't have important content that depends on USE flags etc.), generate them, put in a tarball somewhere (you can ask a proxy committer to host it for you), then fetch them via SRC_URI. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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