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Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:05:57AM -0500, in <401A0255.9010600@g.o>, John Davis <zhen@g.o> wrote: |
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>>Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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>>>Just had an idea for a new USE flag. As a companion to the 'doc' USE flag |
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>>>(which installs extra documentation), how about a USE flag which inhibits |
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>>>/any/ documentation. This would be highly handy for trimming down a system |
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>>>such as a server or router which will never have a warm body sitting in |
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>>>front of it after everything is installed and configured. What say ye? |
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>>> |
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>>Why not put -doc in USE? If the ebuild is specifying docs to install |
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>>using the doc USE, doing the above will negate that effect. All that |
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>>needs to be done is make more ebuilds conform to it. |
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> Because nearly every ebuild, even those which USE doc, installs the |
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> normal documentation (e.g. manpages, texinfo, </usr/share/doc/${PVR}/*>) |
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> even with USE=-doc. USE=doc results in *extra* goodies. |
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Then the flag is ambiguous - does it mean all docs or just "special" |
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docs? I say the best way to go is to just make more ebuilds conform, |
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perhaps add more documentation about the doc flag to the portage guide. |
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Cheers, |
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//zhen |
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John Davis |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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