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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: qa <qa@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 02:07:13
Message-Id: fc13cdb3-3fb8-635d-5dc5-f52a17bc3afe@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags by "Michał Górny"
1 Michał Górny schrieb:
2 > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags
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4 > a. USE flags that disable building both a program and its manpage
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6 I think it seems an implicit goal that this policy should apply to programs
7 and their manpages?
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9 In that case, I would suggest to at least limit this policy to man section 1
10 and 8. As mattst88 explained in another post, X.org developer documentation
11 in man pages is not interesting for non-developers, and does usually not
12 describe the functions of a program.
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15 Best regards,
16 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn