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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" |
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> <flameeyes@g.o> wrote: |
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> | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that |
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> | we can make it a sort of rule). |
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> | How should manpages that are generated be managed? |
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> | The common sense and looking to other ebuilds would say to always |
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> | build man pages, but when it asks me to install something like |
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> | docbook-sgml-utils, I'm tempted not to do that ;) |
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> man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). They're |
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> not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't get |
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> a USE flag. |
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> Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use |
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> ! features_noman ? ( ) ... |
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Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway. |
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Marius |
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