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 1Efgiy-0004kH-2A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:47:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAPGkIl0007312; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:46:18 GMT Received: from eastrmmtao05.cox.net (eastrmmtao05.cox.net [68.230.240.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAPGhQIh002664 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:43:27 GMT Received: from gnosis.datanode.net ([68.110.242.20]) by eastrmmtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051125164321.KKIR14098.eastrmmtao05.cox.net@gnosis.datanode.net> for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:21 -0500 Received: from [172.16.1.103] (unknown [172.16.1.103]) by gnosis.datanode.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4091D for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43873F2B.4090002@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:43:23 -0500 From: Michael Cummings Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f6c72de7-a39e-4e5e-8bf5-21a5612392c5 X-Archives-Hash: b92ccbd6ef7fb9123c07955a0e32ee13 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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. (not advocating a USE flag bug...) what about when the man pages are a duplication of the native documentation? perl module build process can generate man pages - but it is all a duplication of what you get from running perldoc instead. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list