Re: [gentoo-dev] Make 'man' global USE flag from currently local

[Adam Feldman]

On 2/13/21 6:16 AM, Alessandro Barbieri wrote:
> Il Sab 13 Feb 2021, 02:19 Aisha Tammy <gentoo.dev@×××××.cc> ha scritto:
>
>     Hi all,
>        I am proposing to make the `man` USE flag into a global one.
>     Currently it is used by ~45 packages most of which have the same
>     description 'Build and install man pages':
>     https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/man
>     Hopefully no objections to this part?
>
>     Cheers,
>     Aisha
>
>
> IMO manpages should be installed unconditionally and the useflag dropped
>

The key point to be stressed is BUILD and install.  In most, if not all
of those packages in question, I suspect they distribute prebuilt
manpages.  They USE flag is typically used to specify whether to pull
deps to (re)build from scratch.  So, the  issue isn't really so much
manpages being installed unconditionally, but whether they should be
built from scratch when they are shipped prebuilt.

-- 
Thanks,

Adam Feldman
Gentoo Developer
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