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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: qa <qa@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 06:30:22
Message-Id: 64c6c49e9114ae781b82e78475f747bc30f4f97c.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 12:09 -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:25 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Hello,
4 > >
5 > > The QA team would like to introduce the following policy:
6 > >
7 > > """
8 > > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags (e.g.
9 > > USE=man or USE=doc).
10 >
11 > Xorg libraries use USE=doc to control the build (sometimes) and
12 > installation of thousands of developer-documentation man pages. 99.9%
13 > of the time users don't want the developer man pages installed.
14 >
15 > With USE=-doc the packages still install man pages for the
16 > applications, just not the developer documentation man pages.
17 >
18 > Is that not reasonable?
19
20 I think it's a reasonable compromise.
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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