On Sat, 2019-07-20 at 18:16 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 4:22 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, I get it.  User experience is not important if it would mean
> > developers would actually do anything but the bare minimum to get
> > from one paycheck to another.  The usual Gentoo attitude.
> > 
> 
> Not sure where I go to sign up for those paychecks.  However, even
> employers have to accept that policies have a resource cost to them.
> 
> Requiring people to do more than the bare minimum often just ensures
> that they won't even bother to do the bare minimum.  I'm all for
> finding ways to standardize things so that everybody benefits at a
> very low cost.  This doesn't seem that, and honestly requiring
> packages to bundle pre-built manpages seems a bit non-Gentooish to
> begin with.
> 

Then you should go and strip all those pregenerated autotools files,
and require eautoreconf from every single package.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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