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On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 15:42 +0200, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote: |
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> [2019-07-17 15:25:10+0200] Michał Górny: |
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> > The QA team would like to introduce the following policy: |
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> > """ |
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> > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags (e.g. |
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> > USE=man or USE=doc). If upstream does not ship prebuilt manpages |
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> > and building them requires additional dependencies, the maintainer |
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> > should build them and ship along with the package. |
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> > """ |
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> Should this be for any dependency? For example wlroots, sway, … are |
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> using scdoc to transform a form of markdown to manpages, and the |
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> resulting program is very small. |
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> $ qsize scdoc |
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> app-text/scdoc-1.9.3-r1: 5 files, 12 non-files, 59.9K |
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> So in my opinion if the dependency is probably smaller than bundling |
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> the files the dependency should be used. |
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Yes, unconditionally requiring the dependency also fits the proposed |
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wording. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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