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From: Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Unifying the behavior of the doc use flag and document it
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:45:05
Message-Id: 8cd1ed20706240642l23d9db05g430758fcbc6c6c60@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Unifying the behavior of the doc use flag and document it by Steve Long
1 On 6/25/07, Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > >> Maybe the flag needs to be renamed/split up to clarify it's meaning,
4 > >> it's too generic in it's current form (many people enable it blindly and
5 > >> don't really have any clue what the result is).
6 > >> Like using USE=apidoc for API documentation, USE=extradoc for extra
7 > >> user documentation (controlling PDF generation and stuff like that),
8 > >> USE=rebuild-docs to replace pregenerated documentation with
9 > >> updated/regenerated versions (like the gtk-doc issue), and so on (don't
10 > >> know what other use cases there are for USE=doc currently).
11 > >>
12 > >> It's a large change, but USE=doc has been a significant problem for
13 > >> quite a while already (circular deps anyone?)
14 > >>
15 > >
16 > > That does sound like a good idea.
17 > >
18 > ++ I was only thinking of the programmer:user difference, since code docs
19 > tend to pull in a lot of stuff, where as end-user docs are normally
20 > supplied in an easier format (eg not dox ;) rebuild-docs as a one-shot flag
21 > is great.
22 >
23 > Would there be a way to control what kind of markup is output (assuming a
24 > package supports it)? For example, to specify that files should be for
25 > text-only or graphical browser (where both would be the default.) XeTeX --
26 > PS -- PDF is another along those lines.
27
28
29 I can just feel a USE expansion coming on.
30
31 DOC="none pdf txt man ps html info all rebuild" sounds like just a
32 bunch for starters.
33
34 Any votees?
35
36
37 --
38 Kent
39 ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x|
40 print "enNOSPicAMreil kdrtf@×××.com"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}'
41 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Unifying the behavior of the doc use flag and document it Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: RFC: Unifying the behavior of the doc use flag and document it Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>