On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 12:46:54PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:49:23 +0100 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten??"
> ><[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 ? ( ) ...
>
> Except that no{man,info,doc} are on the to-die list anyway.
which doesnt make much sense when they can actually be pretty useful
in controlling DEPEND and/or steps in src functions which take quite a
long time to complete
-mike
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