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On 2019-07-17 16:56, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> I'm against this. |
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> I seriously doubt maintainers will take the time/effort to pre-build |
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> and distribute manpages. The end result of this will be additional |
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> hard dependencies on heavyweight packages. |
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I second that. |
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Keep in mind that aside new time requirement for pre-building and |
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distributing per bump, you often cannot use build system anymore for |
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installation. For example, please see net-misc/iputils package: |
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Because it's a base system package, we need to avoid insane doc |
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dependencies (and this is only xsltproc -- not even the craziest doc |
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dep hell). Therefore we already ship pre-generated man pages. |
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But because package provides various USE flags it's becoming a pain to |
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manually install required docs, see [1]. I don't believe that we want |
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constructs like that for many packages... |
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See also: |
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[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-misc/iputils/iputils-99999999.ebuild?id=ec886beb76dc342eec146f7e4d3785437c12bfa9#n159 |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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