Re: [gentoo-dev] doc categories

Speaking of which (which being docs for packages), is there any validity to
having a USE for 'docs' which determines weather or not varios package
docs are built along with the package they go with?  In my varios
explorations into writing ebuilds I have run into a few packages that come
bundled with docs that require some extra processing tool like Doxygen that
would be silly as a dependancy for the package.  Also, considering the
target audience for Gentoo, I would think there would be situations where
someone wanted to set the box up 'just so' and not care about or want the
docs installed......

Along the same lines, if I'm looking into developing with Python I would
most likely want to install the docs along with the main python package (in
this example), well...depending on how good they are...

So...just a tidbit for ya..

-Tom


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002, mbutcher wrote:
> There is also the case where the docs are put in with their respective
> applications, e.g. dev-python/python-docs
>
> I would agree with Geert that there should be a nice structure for
> documents... finding the docs you want can take a little looking right now.
>
> One good thing about moving docs directories: not many dependancies to fix!
> ;-)
>
> Matt
>
> On Tuesday 08 January 2002 01:32 pm, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > currently there is an app-doc category in portage where documentation
> > ebuilds are put into. The problem is that alread a few of them are not
> > for applications (afs, qt) It would be a good idea imho to create a
> > number of differentiating doc categories.
> >
> > My proposition would be something like : doc-app, doc-libs, ...
> >
> > What do you all think of this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Geert.
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