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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No ping man page
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:23:43
Message-Id: 20080212162335.GA13714@math.princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No ping man page by Andrey Falko
1 On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:12:47AM -0500, Andrey Falko wrote:
2 > On Feb 12, 2008 11:06 AM, <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Anyone else noticed there is no man page for ping? I know I've looked
4
5 I have a ping manpage.
6
7 > There is a -doc use flag, which if problably disabled by default.....
8 > USE="doc" emerge -1 iputils ....this way you'll almost certainly get
9 > the man page.
10
11 Possibly:
12
13 [11:21 AM]wwong man8 $ equery belongs ping.8.bz2
14 [ Searching for file(s) ping.8.bz2 in *... ]
15 net-misc/iputils-20070202 (/usr/share/man/man8/ping.8.bz2)
16 [11:21 AM]wwong man8 $ equery uses iputils
17 [ Searching for packages matching iputils... ]
18 [ Colour Code : set unset ]
19 [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
20 [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
21 [ Found these USE variables for net-misc/iputils-20070202 ]
22 U I
23 + + doc : Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)
24 - - ipv6 : Adds support for IP version 6
25 - - static : !!do not set this during bootstrap!! Causes binaries to be statically linked instead of dynamically
26
27 And, looking at the ebuild,
28
29 if use doc && type -p docbook2html ; then
30 emake -j1 html man || die
31 fi
32
33 So, yeah.
34
35 W
36 --
37 Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu
38 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton
39 A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
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