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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 11:44:55 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Migrating man page to asciidoc?
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Sebastian Pipping <sping@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> * Now we need to have a build time dependency, at least for the live
>> ebuild, which pulls in about 34mb of downloads just to build the man
>> page.
>>
>> Since we are just talking about a man page, imho this is a lot of bloat
>> for very little gain.
>
> I disagree on bloat and on little gain.
>
> If you insist on changing status quo I would like to call in a vote.

Well, in fairness, the asciidoc dependency was just added a day or so ago.

But, I really don't think it's as big a problem as this long email
thread warrants. We simply want to avoid asciidoc, and specifically
it's dependencies, for catalyst snapshots. For the live ebuild, I
don't see the dependencies as a problem.

Can't we simply get the timestamp of the last commit to the git
branch/tag that we're making an archive from and apply it to the
generated content? Doing this would allow us to reproduce an identical
tarball, and avoids a lot of other problems discussed in this thread.

Thanks,
Matt