From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgM9N-0006Vg-7I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:01:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jARD0IBL030816; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:00:18 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jARCwStQ032664 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:58:29 GMT Received: (qmail 14616 invoked by uid 210); 27 Nov 2005 07:51:35 -0500 Received: from 64.192.53.57 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.82/1195. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(64.192.53.57):. Processed in 0.057945 secs); 27 Nov 2005 12:51:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO montgomery-57.epproach.net) (64.192.53.57) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Nov 2005 07:51:35 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4386EB9E.201@gentoo.org> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> <4386EB9E.201@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:58:26 -0500 Message-Id: <1133096306.5317.375.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jARD0ICx030816 X-Archives-Salt: 87201b46-8fd9-4c3a-84b6-d53d8be63e42 X-Archives-Hash: 25a1129aecabc3c0deeb0debe645561c 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' Petten=F2" > > wrote: > > | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so th= at > > | we can make it a sort of rule). > > | How should manpages that are generated be managed? > > |=20 > > | 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 ;) > >=20 > > 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 g= et > > a USE flag. > >=20 > > Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use > > ! features_noman ? ( ) ... >=20 > 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. --=20 Ned Ludd Gentoo Linux --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list