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On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable |
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> > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. |
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> > |
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> > @Alan Mackenzie: |
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> > |
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> > What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE |
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> > flags in the file /etc/portage/package.use; e.g. use an entry like: |
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> What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and enable |
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> it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra documentation that |
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> general users don't need, man/info/html pages are included by default (at |
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> least, that's how it is supposed to work, the odd package, like ffmpeg, |
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> won't even include a man page without the doc flag). |
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The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile |
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(amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in |
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/etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need it in |
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/etc/portage/package.use. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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