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

[Neil Bothwick]

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


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Neil Bothwick