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On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> Short answer: according to Changelog, use USE=doc for iputils until |
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> next version of iputils comes out (but be prepared to pull in *lots* |
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> of stuff meanwhile). |
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> Somewhat longer answer: read |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158660 |
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> Essentially, building man pages for iputils requires openjade + |
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> various docbook/sgml/xml tools. |
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<sigh> Code like this makes me want to vomit. The |
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OS-that-shall-not-be-named pulls stunts like this, I really think FLOSS |
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stuff should be better. |
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So, I have to emerge an entire sgml kit to generate a man page. Wow. |
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Especially since last time I looked, man pages were not in sgml format |
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or even any format that vaguely resembles mark-up |
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To the upstream iputils dev: |
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"Dude, wtf were you thinking?" |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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