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Jakub Moc posted <444E6454.5040907@g.o>, excerpted below, on Tue, |
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25 Apr 2006 20:03:00 +0200: |
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> I'd like to see some clarification of intended doc use flag usage, so that |
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> we wouldn't force users to download/install 40+ megs of docs for a ~3 meg |
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> package, with the only reason being that USE=doc is for developer |
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> documentation only. [1] |
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> And no, I don't think we need yet another use flag. ;) FEATURES="nodoc" is |
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> also not exactly useful as it's forcing users to download stuff they are |
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> not interested in at all. (To make it more clear, I'm talking about |
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> ebuilds that download docs in a separate tarball here.) |
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> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122265 |
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Maybe I'll get shot down for this, but IMO, there's nothing wrong with |
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individual packages having a local userdoc USE flag. I don't believe it |
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needs to be global, and in the general case its use would be discouraged, |
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but it seems reasonable in extreme cases like the above, where the docs |
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tarball is ten times the size of the source tarball. Maybe make it a |
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policy that the flag is only to be used when docs are a minimum of three |
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times (or twice?) the source tarball size and at least 10 MB, and then dev |
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discretion is advised? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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