From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZrfc-0005U7-4n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:01:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD23E03C1; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5326E03C1 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F124C81DA for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (toz.strangled.net [82.232.126.136]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78C94C81DC for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:01:04 +0100 From: Alexis Ballier To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned Message-ID: <20090218200104.291e07bc@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20090218155035.1eac6792@snowcone> References: <20090213213017.GA3452@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net> <200902172326.19358.bangert@gentoo.org> <9d2010770902171610u7839ac9bsedca72fa74b70d29@mail.gmail.com> <20090218001806.1a19df6b@snowcone> <20090218083958.01f2111f@gentoo.org> <20090218140646.10282a5b@snowcone> <18844.9899.336441.721100@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20090218152137.221889fe@snowcone> <18844.11606.213809.834453@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20090218155035.1eac6792@snowcone> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/iy1ayTxGlvspoecIjx3HxUk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 9ec25fdd-286c-473b-a083-b6966ba339ca X-Archives-Hash: 50d69f2be2e5358120034af13f52fa47 --Sig_/iy1ayTxGlvspoecIjx3HxUk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > If you really, genuinely think you have a case for compression of > docs, backed up with statistics showing that it's a relevant change, I fail to see why you need statistics for something that is clearly a waste of space, but this could be a start: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_9018a9f64cd32ba85494887ffe3edf78.= xml > then you should write a proposal for future EAPIs for handling it, I don't understand why something that has been there for ages has to die. For what I've seen, the major (and only) problem with prepalldocs is its definition and I'm sure we can find one that everybody will agree with. > and you should do it in such a way that it works automatically for > all ebuilds, without any developer intervention (but providing some > way for ebuilds to disable it where necessary). This is probably a good start: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_eb1f7952eb2f0fe725bde331a4d9ae30.= xml Alexis. --Sig_/iy1ayTxGlvspoecIjx3HxUk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmcWvAACgkQvFcC4BYPU0qSnACfTJ+d6tU64rBUd32lWEJ7tGpW tdwAnin/mUr4S/28L3aFFONaTBm8cEod =kvrB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/iy1ayTxGlvspoecIjx3HxUk--