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 1EfikP-0007ji-Hw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:56:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAPItcAk012634; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:55:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAPIqhIm023110 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:52:43 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Efigd-0007MV-Ll for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:52:43 +0000 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 18:52:43 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies Message-ID: <20051125185243.GC19165@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> <4386EB9E.201@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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4386EB9E.201@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e0a3b332-e5de-4107-8aed-65b0a74a31c2 X-Archives-Hash: f4dada389e38a9d500d22696b5d3ab52 On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:46:54PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten??" > > 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. which doesnt make much sense when they can actually be pretty useful in controlling DEPEND and/or steps in src functions which take quite a long time to complete -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list