On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 08:50:29PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:25:10 +0200 Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The QA team would like to introduce the following policy: > > > > """ > > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags (e.g. > > USE=man or USE=doc). If upstream does not ship prebuilt manpages > > and building them requires additional dependencies, the maintainer > > should build them and ship along with the package. > > """ > > > > > > Explanatory note: > > > > This applies to having USE flags that specifically control building > > manpages. It obviously does not affect: > > > > a. USE flags that disable building both a program and its manpage (e.g. > > if USE=gui disables building gfrobnicate, not installing gfrobnicate(1) > > is correct), > > > > b. use of LINGUAS to control installed manpages. > > > > > > Rationale: > > > > Manpages are the basic form of user documentation on Gentoo Linux. Not > > installing them is harmful to our users. On the other hand, requiring > > additional dependencies is inconvenient. Therefore, packaging prebuilt > > manpages (whenever upstream doesn't do that already) is a good > > compromise that provides user with documentation without additional > > dependencies. > > > > > > What are your comments? > > The basic foundation of Gentoo is freedom of choise for our users. > If installing man pages means no additional dependencies, than > proposed rule is ok. However if such dependencies are required it is > up to users to decide if they wan them or not. > > Having USE=man (or USE=doc) for such purposes is fine. Having > USE=man enabled by default in user profile is also fine. Forcing > users to install unnecessary dependencies on minimal systems in a > no go and turns Gentoo into something else. > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko
I am going to divert topics here... "freedom"... like freedom to post on a mailing list without restriction (e.g. whitelisting) ? -- Cheers, Aaron
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