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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@g.o>
To: Matthieu Sozeau <mattam@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:27:56
Message-Id: 20040822002752.GQ28058@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples by Matthieu Sozeau
1 On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 09:37:50PM +0200, Matthieu Sozeau wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > I would like to add this USE flag, which i could use for a lot of ebuilds (I
4 > actually install provided examples along the documentation sometimes, not
5 > always, and I suspect others do the same). Thoughts, flames ? (No, you can't
6 > attack this proposal by saying we already have too much flags :).
7
8 I second this.
9
10 I have a good many packages which come with rather big examples, in addition
11 to ordinary documentation.
12
13 In fact, for some of the Java packages, and example may actually be an entire
14 (web)application, complete with documentation of its own.
15
16 If this gets ratified, I'd also recommend we try to refactor the existing
17 packages with 'doc' keywords, albeit slowly, since I know many of those
18 include examples when doc is enabled.
19
20 -- Karl T

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: examples "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com>