Re: [gentoo-dev] Staging 'einstalldocs' for EAPI 6

[Alexis Ballier]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:01:34 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> 3. Support DOCS=() / DOCS='' to disable dodoc
>
>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463736
>
> Well, this one is mostly what the bug is about. I think we should just
> do it. Implementation could be discussed a bit though.
>
> For example, hasufell has suggested checking ${DOCS// /} to support
> DOCS='   ' as well. IMO we shouldn't be supporting such a weird
> mistakes.
>

See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481664

This is already allowed if one reads PMS the way that makes it work.