Re: [gentoo-user] setting a USE flags for many packages

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:43:29 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
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>> I normally like to have the documentation built for all packages.
>> Therefore I have added 'doc' to /etc/make.conf USE
>>
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> Are you aware that the doc USE flag normally controls extra documentation,
> such as API docs for devs? Normal documentation, like man and info pages,
> is generally built by default. You're probably better off with -doc in
> make.conf and only enable it for the packages you need.
>
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>

This is true.  I have had -doc in make.conf for a looooong time and I
still have all the man and info pages.  I can't say that I have even
missed anything really.

Dale

:-)  :-)