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| From: | Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies | ||
| Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:47:00 | ||
| Message-Id: | 43873F2B.4090002@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies by Ciaran McCreesh |
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| 1 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
| 2 | > man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). They're |
| 3 | > not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't get |
| 4 | > a USE flag. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | (not advocating a USE flag bug...) what about when the man pages are a |
| 7 | duplication of the native documentation? perl module build process can |
| 8 | generate man pages - but it is all a duplication of what you get from |
| 9 | running perldoc instead. |
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| 11 | |
| 12 | |
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| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] manpages that requires dependencies | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> |