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On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 12:26:51PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: |
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> On 2/13/21 12:16 PM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: |
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> > IMO manpages should be installed unconditionally and the useflag dropped |
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> I'd like to disagree - IIRC there're packages with a ridiculous large |
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> and expensive dep tree just to build their man pages. |
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It "would" be fine if maintainers were all willing to pre-build man |
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pages and distribute them where relevant. |
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There was a previous attempt[1] to make this a policy but it didn't |
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work out. So now everyone is doing what they prefer, including using |
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USE=man or unconditionally pulling deps just for man pages. |
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If maintainers don't all want to do this for every packages, then I |
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think USE=man needs to stay and go global, lot of users even get |
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angered by not-so-heavy sphinx being pulled only for man pages they |
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never read. |
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[1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/a6a8e840773da77ee6008ac23b4f89e1 |
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