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On 05/11/2017 12:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> In fact, I'm personally leaning towards not building docs at all |
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> in ebuilds. It's practically a wasted effort since most of the time |
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> users read docs online anyway. |
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I believe that's a little myopic; a user (or even developer) may not |
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have Internet access all the time, or may not have it in their primary |
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development environment. Having a copy of the docs locally (the entire |
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point of USE="doc") is super valuable to have when you're away from the |
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network. I'm sure I'm not alone as one of the people who uses the flag |
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and appreciates the work that goes into making sure said flag works. |
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Sure, we could yank out every single USE="doc", but then we lose a nice |
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feature of the tree and users are back to either (a) trawling the Web to |
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find the project site, then hope they have docs in a separate download, |
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or (b) we end up with foo+1 packages, one extra for any package that has |
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documentation. Neither are particularly good solutions; Debian has done |
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the latter and it results in a huge number of packages for little gain. |
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