Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:09, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:58 -0500, Ned Ludd wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:46 +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway.
> >
> > They are very valuable features and quite easy to use without mucking
> > with INSTALL_MASK. I'm against this change without some justification.
>
> further investigation shows that you can't simply get rid of these as
> several core ebuilds use the feature to control the creation of
> packages. A quick grep shows that several ebuilds do stuff like.
> has noman FEATURES && do_stuff
>
> openssl/glibc/gcc/dhcp/boa/gdb to name a few that take advantage of the
> no{man,info,doc} FEATURES= already.

Core packages or not, they are all broken. When the requirement came up, the 
respective maintainers should have spoken up so that a proper solution could 
be found. When are the quick hacks going to stop? :|

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