Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, MIkey wrote:

> Stuart Herbert wrote:
>
>> Another point of view are servers, where there's simply no need to
>> have docs installed on each and every box in a rack.  There's no need
>> to install what a user doesn't need, and having doc and example USE
>> flags more widely supported means that Gentoo does a better job of
>> respecting the choice of users.
>
> Amen.  I use FEATURES="noinfo noman nodoc" and USE="-doc" on all of my
> server installs.  My only desire is that there would be a way to turn them
> off more completely - no texinfo, no perl man page generation, etc...


>  I
> would also like to have them excluded from binary packages.
>

That can't be right can it?  You mean, like openoffice-bin, or like the 
ones you build yourself?  I know that I often build on one system, install 
on several, and when I do that, I really want them to be identical.  I 
think if you have your no-docs-of-any-kind option, you get your wish as to 
locally built packages, but if you really mean things like openoffice-bin, 
I doubt that any openoffice user would want it with absolutely no 
documentation.

Confused,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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