Re: [gentoo-dev] We have "doc" USE flag, why not a "man" USE flag too

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 11 August 2005 09:40 am, Marius Mauch wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:26:49 -0400
>
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> > On Thursday 11 August 2005 07:02 am, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > With noman and the like, how's the following for a solution? A lot
> > > of the ebuild functions contained within portage will be moving
> > > into the tree once signing is in. What about adding
> > > {pre,post}_src_{compile,install,...} hooks into portage that will
> > > live in the tree that USE="man" support can be implemented in
> > > globally? For those packages that have a specific interest, the USE
> > > flag will be available. Everything should be happy on the ebuild
> > > side of things. (On the U/I side of things, stuff can be done to
> > > cut down the noise.)
> >
> > so you're saying that the default ebuild.sh functions are going to be
> > moving into the tree to a place which will be auto-sourced before the
> > ebuild and its eclasses ?
> > -mike
>
> If you read it again you'll notice the {pre,post} part ;)
> IIRC that's already in HEAD for /etc/portage/bashrc, so extending it to
> $PORTDIR shouldn't be an issue.

and if *you* read it again you'll notice that he said moving a lot of ebuild 
functions out of ebuild.sh *and* adding new {pre,post} hooks

personally i dont think bashrc is appropriate for this ...
-mike
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