[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: Unifying the behavior of the doc use flag and document it

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Kent Fredric wrote:
>> ++ I was only thinking of the programmer:user difference, since code docs
>> tend to pull in a lot of stuff, where as end-user docs are normally
>> supplied in an easier format (eg not dox ;) rebuild-docs as a one-shot
>> flag is great.
>>
>> Would there be a way to control what kind of markup is output (assuming a
>> package supports it)? For example, to specify that files should be for
>> text-only or graphical browser (where both would be the default.) XeTeX
>> -- PS -- PDF is another along those lines.
> 
> I can just feel a USE expansion coming on.
> 
> DOC="none pdf txt man ps html info all rebuild" sounds like just a
> bunch for starters.
> 
> Any votees?
> 
Not me, I'm afraid, unless this is the only way to do it.. I agree that they
should only apply to single packages, not across the tree. Although, if I'm
honest, I don't know what that breaks.


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