Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

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"
> > <flameeyes@gentoo.org> 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.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
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