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 1Efjhg-00085C-W6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:57:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAPJuW1C004928; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:56:32 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 jAPJrDgY020704 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:53:13 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EfjdA-0004ny-VX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:53:13 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EfjEX-00021b-6T for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:27:45 +0000 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:27:42 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies Message-ID: <20051125192742.166538e3@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <43873F2B.4090002@gentoo.org> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> <43873F2B.4090002@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary=Sig_2DHzwAUfT_u0oX0p+_SVavq; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d28f80c8-9b62-4e42-b193-77e496616dcf X-Archives-Hash: 657d52cf471437693f166ae56e70b880 --Sig_2DHzwAUfT_u0oX0p+_SVavq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:23 -0500 Michael Cummings wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > 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. |=20 | (not advocating a USE flag bug...) what about when the man pages are | a duplication of the native documentation? perl module build process | can generate man pages - but it is all a duplication of what you get | from running perldoc instead. Perl is of course speshul. perldoc is a man replacement which still operates correctly in a basic command-line environment. Plus, doesn't perldoc come with perl no matter what? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_2DHzwAUfT_u0oX0p+_SVavq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDh2Ww96zL6DUtXhERAtMuAKCyatNnqnU0Glaol15ZCRryi04MOgCfeKJe GpQYYpdwV6ZoeyEGm/G9BQo= =CnB7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_2DHzwAUfT_u0oX0p+_SVavq-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list