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 1EgNnF-0006Zj-C1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:46:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAREja5V030006; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:45:36 GMT Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz (gw.top-hosting.cz [81.0.254.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAREhnib017955 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:43:49 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 068F78A572C for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:43:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.top-hosting.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21623-12 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:43:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from NOTORCOMP (21.217.broadband4.iol.cz [85.71.217.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A1E70BEDF for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:43:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:43:38 +0100 From: Jakub Moc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1978078361.20051127154338@gentoo.org> To: Jason Stubbs Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies In-Reply-To: <200511272339.48235.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1133096306.5317.375.camel@localhost> <1133096996.5317.384.camel@localhost> <200511272339.48235.jstubbs@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------B67D19D3E2B599D" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.3 (20050822) at top-hosting.cz X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.605 tagged_above=-999 required=6 tests=[AWL=0.604, BAYES_50=0.001] X-Spam-Score: 0.605 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 79efaba4-eeac-441c-9680-769238ec71e4 X-Archives-Hash: 6036d7fad7c2467ccefef98e857b76b7 ------------B67D19D3E2B599D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0D=0A27.11.2005, 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=3D already. > Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, = the=20 > respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper solution co= uld=20 > 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? :-( --=20 jakub ------------B67D19D3E2B599D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDicYahxfV/c66PZ4RAv3cAJ9eo3nAenXMXGJatKLarA6VB78+wwCgi/h1 3X6INjHtLzb0Z9ItvSOmJXM= =wf9C -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------B67D19D3E2B599D-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list