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 1EgPQQ-00008t-DY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:30:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jARGU7nA014269; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:30:07 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 jARGSEZT029512 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:28:15 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EgPNu-0008EY-J9 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:28:14 +0000 Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:28:14 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies Message-ID: <20051127162814.GA3272@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1978078361.20051127154338@gentoo.org> <200511280005.53197.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <200511280048.24846.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <1133107952.21175.467.camel@localhost> 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: <1133107952.21175.467.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 5f9e203a-30e4-4019-8872-5bcc8d39e44c X-Archives-Hash: 97876f50bfc0da542c9d7fa7eacd4daa 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list