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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-doc/eclass-manpages/files/
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:04:37
Message-Id: e116edff436da41e8df8d657b7f91c1486b65e00.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: app-doc/eclass-manpages/files/ by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 15:52 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 3/26/19 3:43 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2019-03-26 at 19:33 +0000, Aaron Bauman wrote:
4 > > > commit: 2e32186bbee30a4a2e1c4f37c79c61897e53d8df
5 > > > Author: Michael Mair-Keimberger <m.mairkeimberger <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
6 > > > AuthorDate: Tue Mar 26 19:28:48 2019 +0000
7 > > > Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
8 > > > CommitDate: Tue Mar 26 19:32:52 2019 +0000
9 > > > URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2e32186b
10 > > >
11 > > > app-doc/eclass-manpages: remove unused file
12 > > >
13 > >
14 > > Cool. It figures life's gonna be much easier now that we don't have
15 > > the tool to generate those manpages.
16
17 First of all, I'm sorry, this wasn't supposed to go to -dev. I removed
18 -commits but failed to notice -dev appended somewhere as well.
19
20 >
21 > In their defense, that package is structured ridiculously.
22
23 Yep, guess who did it.
24
25 > We certainly
26 > shouldn't be using $FILESDIR as the source control repository for the
27 > shell/awk scripts that generate the man pages. If anything, they belong
28 > in their own package, with their own "upstream" project/repository. The
29 > eclass-manpages package would then (build-) depend on the scripts -- at
30 > least for -9999 version that builds them on the fly.
31
32 I was thinking about doing this for quite some time. Never found enough
33 motivation though.
34
35 --
36 Best regards,
37 Michał Górny

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