Re: [gentoo-dev] man pages: build or copy?

[Michał Górny]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 14:54:56 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on
> app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The
> trouble is that ronn is a Ruby program and pulls in a shedload of
> dependencies, just to install man pages.
>
> It seems to me to make more sense to put pre-built man pages in
> ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the
> correct or acceptable way to deal with this?
>
> 1) https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588324

If they are quite static (i.e. don't have important content that
depends on USE flags etc.), generate them, put in a tarball somewhere
(you can ask a proxy committer to host it for you), then fetch them via
SRC_URI.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>