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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> I misinterpreted what you wrote. I thought you meant "physically included |
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> in the package," not "installed from a binary package." I just completely |
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> read what looks like a reasonable request and turned it into nonsense |
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> without thinking about it, I guess. |
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I am not so sure you misinterpreted me, because when I specify -doc and |
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emerge -B a package, I don't want docs installed OR in the binary package |
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that is generated. I want the behavior of USE flags to be consistent. If |
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I set -ssl and generate a binary package for apache2, the packaged up |
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libraries should not link with ssl libraries. The same should apply with |
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-doc. |
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What I would really like is the same capability with info and man pages. |
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Currently the only way to exclude them is use the unsupported, undocumented |
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FEATURES="noman noinfo" hack, which if I am not mistaken does not remove |
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them from binary packages. |
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Try a du -ksh /usr/share/doc /usr/share/man /usr/share/info and you might |
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get an idea of why the feature might be desirable: |
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132M /usr/share/doc |
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5.7M /usr/share/info |
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56M /usr/share/man |
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Most of those are compressed, which means they take even _more_ space in a |
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binary package. It adds up. |
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