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On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:28 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Could you please read the proposed policy? It explicitly says you are |
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> *not* supposed to force extra deps on users but build manpages for them. |
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This seems like a significant increase in maintainer effort compared |
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to just leaving things as they are for very little benefit. Simple |
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revbumps turn into needing to do a separate build just to build the |
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manpages, then package those up, host them somewhere, then fetch and |
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install that from the ebuild. It would be easier to just make the |
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whole package a binary package since then all the logic happens |
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outside the ebuild, and all the ebuild does is fetch/install a |
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tarball, which it would have to do anyway just for the manpages. |
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Most packages with stable build systems take almost no effort to |
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revbump, and this would add a fair bit of complexity. I suspect that |
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you'll find far more maintainers stop going to the trouble to strip |
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out the dependencies needed for building manpages vs maintaining two |
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build systems in parallel, with one having no place to host it. |
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Then whenever a maintainer disappears the package goes to |
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maintainer-needed, and anybody who wants to touch it has to figure out |
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how to build the manpages likely without the benefit of any scripts |
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the original maintainer had lying around. |
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If we REALLY wanted to do something like this it seems like it would |
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be better to build some tooling around it. Maybe an eclass combined |
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with a special USE flag like "man-build". A daemon would check for |
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packages that have this IUSE and would build the package using it, |
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which will generate the manpages. It would then store those pages |
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using a standardized naming convention. The ebuild would inherit the |
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eclass which would check if man-build was set, and if not it would |
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automatically fetch and install the manpages built by the build server |
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from the mirrors. |
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Then ebuilds that currently have IUSE=man would just inherit the |
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eclass and change to the man-build flag. That flag would only be used |
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by the build servers and not by end users, unless they wanted to build |
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their own manpages from scratch, which would work fine, as the flag |
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would not suppress building the rest of the package. |
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Really though I don't see THAT much benefit from doing either. |
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