Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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27.11.2005, 15:39:48, Jason Stubbs wrote:

> On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote:
>> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
>> > > 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.

> Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, the 
> respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper solution could 
> be found. When are the quick hacks going to stop? :|

I can't see why exactly do we need to get rid of useful features? :-(

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jakub

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