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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: examples
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:36:54
Message-Id: 200408231036.47562.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: examples by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Monday 23 August 2004 08:30 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > I disagree with you. Documentation is very different from example
3 > applications and the like. The java herd is not the only group having
4 > problems with this. Look for example at the formidable example collection
5 > provided in qt. In most cases it is not necessary at all to compile them
6 > all (take quite some time), while developer docs might be interesting.
7
8 doc works fine if you consider the context ...
9
10 USE=doc [some programming language] -> i get a lot of programming related
11 documentation
12
13 USE=doc [some program] -> i get a lot of manuals and extraneous things
14
15 looks fine to me ... simply putting USE=doc is a user's problem
16 -mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: examples Matthieu Sozeau <mattam@g.o>