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On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:52:56 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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> > Does bind-tools really need packages like sphinxcontrib-qthelp, |
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> > sphinxcontrib-applehelp, sphinxcontrib-jsmath, |
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> > sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp? |
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> All of these are unfortunate consequences of Sphinx's hefty dependency |
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> list [3]. It seems that as the manual pages are installed with the |
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> package (regardless of the `doc` USE-flag), |
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That's to be expected, the doc flag is supposed to control the |
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installation of extra documentation. |
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> there is no way of |
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> mitigating this dependency bloat with the bind-tools 9.16 series. |
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> Hopefully this can be addressed by the developers in future. |
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Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, although |
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I don't know if this is considered good practice. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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