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Hi, |
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I'm with Rich on this one. I trust that like me most of the developers |
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here earn pay checks from elsewhere and that our time here is either |
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completely volunteer work, or towards a purpose that suits that of our |
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employers. |
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Unless there is a way to automate the building of the associated man |
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pages on a build server in some way. This might be possible come to |
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think of it. |
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USE flag to enable/disable bundled packages. Any packages that gets |
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committed with this USE flag goes off to a build server that builds the |
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package and prepares an install (without bundled) and then the man pages |
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can be scraped from the prepared install I reckon and placed on a |
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standard URL, say d.g.o/manpages/${CATEGORY}/${PVR}.tar.gz ... possibly |
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an eclass may be required I don't know, haven't thought about it that much. |
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I am in support of the idea that for any given command there should be a |
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"sensible" man page (it could be as simple as pointing to online |
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documentation), but don't see this as a show stopper. |
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I'll support this proposal if, and only if, there is a way to automate |
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the building and distribution of "bundled" man pages as proposed. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Jaco |
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On 2019/07/21 00:16, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 4:22 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Yes, I get it. User experience is not important if it would mean |
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>> developers would actually do anything but the bare minimum to get |
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>> from one paycheck to another. The usual Gentoo attitude. |
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> Not sure where I go to sign up for those paychecks. However, even |
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> employers have to accept that policies have a resource cost to them. |
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> Requiring people to do more than the bare minimum often just ensures |
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> that they won't even bother to do the bare minimum. I'm all for |
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> finding ways to standardize things so that everybody benefits at a |
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> very low cost. This doesn't seem that, and honestly requiring |
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> packages to bundle pre-built manpages seems a bit non-Gentooish to |
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> begin with. |
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