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From: Christopher Head <chead@×××××.ca>
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: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:37:39
Message-Id: 7B626C4C-B465-4829-B300-B678880B7245@chead.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags by "Michał Górny"
1 On July 20, 2019 1:22:39 PM PDT, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 >Yes, I get it. User experience is not important if it would mean
3 >developers would actually do anything but the bare minimum to get
4 >from one paycheck to another. The usual Gentoo attitude.
5
6 Is my experience as a user really improved if a package I use is dropped because its maintainer no longer has time to maintain it because they now have to spend their N available hours per month building man pages for one package rather than maintaining two?
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9 Christopher Head

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New QA policy: Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags "Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier" <contact@×××××××××.me>