From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 23:58:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
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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 ? ( ) ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-25 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-24 23:49 [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-24 23:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-11-25 0:03 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-25 7:13 ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-25 10:21 ` Alexandre Buisse
2005-11-25 10:46 ` Marius Mauch
2005-11-25 18:52 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-11-27 9:21 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2005-11-27 12:58 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 13:09 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 14:39 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-27 14:43 ` Re[2]: " Jakub Moc
2005-11-27 15:05 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-27 15:48 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-27 16:12 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 16:28 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-11-27 16:48 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 16:45 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-27 14:47 ` Ned Ludd
2005-11-27 14:50 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-27 15:01 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-27 15:43 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-27 16:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-27 17:30 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-11-25 16:43 ` Michael Cummings
2005-11-25 19:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-11-25 16:52 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-11-25 19:27 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
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