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On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:13:13 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 07/09/2016 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on |
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> > app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The |
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> > trouble is that ronn is a Ruby program and pulls in a shedload of |
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> > dependencies, just to install man pages. |
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> Ruby packages (besides dev-lang/ruby itself) install quickly, like perl |
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> packages, so this isn't a *huge* deal. They can also be removed |
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> afterwards with a depclean. |
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That's when it really hurt, installing on a system without ruby itself. |
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That's when I looked at alternatives. |
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> > It seems to me to make more sense to put pre-built man pages in |
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> > ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the |
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> > correct or acceptable way to deal with this? |
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> It's up to you. If they release a new version every day, it's going to |
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> get real annoying to regenerate the man pages each time. Also keep an |
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> eye on the size of the man pages. We have a soft limit of "a few |
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> kilobytes" for things in FILESDIR, |
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There's only three of them, totally 15kB uncompressed. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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