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 1EgNhF-0001Qb-4P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:40:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAREdHSL030404; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:39:17 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 jAREbWsL007506 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:37:32 GMT Received: from zj031127.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([222.4.31.127] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EgNel-0005hc-O8 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:37:31 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4DB7E248622; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:39:48 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:39:48 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <1133096306.5317.375.camel@localhost> <1133096996.5317.384.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1133096996.5317.384.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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511272339.48235.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 30b3b466-c595-47d7-8641-a0a2692f3328 X-Archives-Hash: 41e17b17719691607237f99c873a9f11 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? :| -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list