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 1Efc2C-00001z-UE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:46:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAPBjoMX007769; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:45:50 GMT Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslc-082-082-181-115.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.181.115]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAPBi4FR000123 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:44:04 GMT Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id 5008528177; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:44:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C214328048 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:44:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4386EB9E.201@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:46:54 +0200 From: Marius Mauch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4-gr0-genone_0.7 (2005-06-05) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.4-gr0-genone_0.7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jAPBjoOB007769 X-Archives-Salt: 45598f01-ac7a-4452-a5be-81c8d5a2e599 X-Archives-Hash: eabd721f5cfe04340e102c2ae4f52ae0 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2" > wrote: > | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that > | we can make it a sort of rule). > | How should manpages that are generated be managed? > |=20 > | The common sense and looking to other ebuilds would say to always > | build man pages, but when it asks me to install something like > | docbook-sgml-utils, I'm tempted not to do that ;) >=20 > man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). They're > not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't get > a USE flag. >=20 > Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use > ! features_noman ? ( ) ... Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. Marius --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list