Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:44
Message-Id: 20080430185841.3caa51c6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior by Uwe Thiem
1 On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:45:35 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote:
2
3 > > Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have
4 > > horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML
5 > > and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering
6 > > towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring me whole and
7 > > consigning my soul to oblivion.
8 > >
9 > > "USE=doc" is truly the stuff of which nightmares are made.
10 >
11 > It isn't all that bad. I have "doc" enabled globally. Yes, some
12 > packages take a while longer - but then, in most cases I want the
13 > documentation anyway. I haven't been haunted by this so far. ;-)
14
15 It's not just the extra build time for the packages but the huge
16 dependencies the flag adds to some builds, all to generate documentation I
17 wouldn't understand anyway :(
18
19 % grep -r doc /etc/portage/package.use | wc -l
20 8
21
22 That's more than enough for me!
23
24
25 --
26 Neil Bothwick
27
28 If at first you don't succeed, well...darn.

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