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On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:30:03AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2019-07-17 at 12:09 -0700, Matt Turner wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:25 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Hello, |
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> > > |
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> > > The QA team would like to introduce the following policy: |
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> > > |
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> > > """ |
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> > > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags (e.g. |
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> > > USE=man or USE=doc). |
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> > Xorg libraries use USE=doc to control the build (sometimes) and |
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> > installation of thousands of developer-documentation man pages. 99.9% |
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> > of the time users don't want the developer man pages installed. |
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> > With USE=-doc the packages still install man pages for the |
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> > applications, just not the developer documentation man pages. |
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> > |
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> > Is that not reasonable? |
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> I think it's a reasonable compromise. |
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> -- |
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> Best regards, |
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> Michał Górny |
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If no one noticed. I think the original proposal is looking for some "common |
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sense" here. |
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Cheers, |
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Aaron |
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