On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi everybody, a little question that I'd like to be answered (so that | we can make it a sort of rule). | How should manpages that are generated be managed? | | The common sense and looking to other ebuilds would say to always | build man pages, but when it asks me to install something like | docbook-sgml-utils, I'm tempted not to do that ;)
man pages can't be considered optional (despite what RMS says). They're not fancy extra HTML API documentation, they're core, so they don't get a USE flag. Of course, if FEATURES were in the USE expand list, you could use ! features_noman ? ( ) ... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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