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 1EfXqE-0001vo-0X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:17:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAP7GgSh022681; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:16:42 GMT Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz (gw.top-hosting.cz [81.0.254.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAP7DG1Y006994 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:13:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034FA9A9B6C for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.top-hosting.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.top-hosting.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10904-13-2 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from NOTORCOMP (21.217.broadband4.iol.cz [85.71.217.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.top-hosting.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321329781F7 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:01 +0100 From: Jakub Moc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <484811244.20051125081301@gentoo.org> To: Ciaran McCreesh Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies In-Reply-To: <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> References: <200511250049.50833@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <20051124235828.61cdacd0@snowdrop.home> 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: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="----------B1751F183C7EF" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new 2.3.3 (20050822) at top-hosting.cz X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.658 tagged_above=-999 required=6 tests=[AWL=0.658] X-Spam-Score: 0.658 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 7ad38edf-633d-463b-9496-7ef4bcf0f110 X-Archives-Hash: 9e3342b1ab2be6f5e66691771e778db7 ------------B1751F183C7EF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =0D=0A25.11.2005, 0:58:28, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petteno" > 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 ;) > 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. > Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use > ! features_noman ? ( ) ... That is all fine and dandy, but if you search bugzilla for USE=3Ddoc related bugs, you might think twice before adding yet another inevitably broken thi= ng to portage. docbook-sgml-utils & co. is extremely fragile and buggy thing. --=20 Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xCEB= A3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA 3D9E ... still no signature ;) ------------B1751F183C7EF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFDhrl9hxfV/c66PZ4RAmnJAJ9i7B8H+5QLn+SdFP3l8pmLJBwUUQCfWisu 6Gfy4wo8cootZMysYbhbYdI= =Gr7a -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ------------B1751F183C7EF-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list