Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:12:32AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages"
> > >
> > > In light of the above requirements and the fact that dyn_* will likely be
> > > moved into the tree down the track, #3 seems to be the best in my mind.
> > > Similarly, it would solve the previously discussed problems related to
> > > FEATURES="test".

this seems like the best idea imo too ...

> > I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on this. The more I think about 
> > it, the more I think it's the most appropriate solution. Nothing in 
> > FEATURES="noman nodoc noinfo test" affects portage whatsoever other than 
> > "noinfo" which (only recently) prevents emerge from regenerating info 
> > indexes. That one could be handled by a hook (although not yet available) and 
> > the rest could easily be switched to USE flags.
> 
> USE=(man|info|doc) wont quite work.
> While they could have an advantage that you can use them to control 
> depend strings the doc use flag has already been heavily used for other 
> things which everybody surely wont want.

i dont see what USE=doc has to do with this ?  doc should never be used
to control manpages in ebuilds now ...
-mike
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