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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 19:27:16
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0603041920170.21709@terciopelo.krait.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples) by MIkey
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4 On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, MIkey wrote:
5
6 > Ferris McCormick wrote:
7 >
8 >>> I
9 >>> would also like to have them excluded from binary packages.
10 >>>
11 >>
12 >> That can't be right can it? You mean, like openoffice-bin, or like the
13 >> ones you build yourself? I know that I often build on one system, install
14 >> on several, and when I do that, I really want them to be identical. I
15 >> think if you have your no-docs-of-any-kind option, you get your wish as to
16 >> locally built packages, but if you really mean things like openoffice-bin,
17 >> I doubt that any openoffice user would want it with absolutely no
18 >> documentation.
19 >
20 > Yes, if I say -doc or specify FEATURES="nodoc", I don't want the docs in
21 > there, binary package or not. I want the behavior and results to be
22 > consistent. I am not talking about things like the internal openoffice
23 > help documentation, I am talking about anything that goes
24 > into /usr/share/doc, man pages, and info pages.
25 >
26
27 I misinterpreted what you wrote. I thought you meant "physically included
28 in the package," not "installed from a binary package." I just completely read
29 what looks like a reasonable request and turned it into nonsense without
30 thinking about it, I guess.
31
32 Regards,
33 Ferris
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35 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
36 Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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