On 07/22/19 21:08, Aaron Bauman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 06:16:24PM -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 > > I do like that. I will send you the royalties for quoting you. > >> 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. >> >> -- >> Rich >> > > Regarding pre-built manpages, I think you have missed Michal's (yea, I don't > fancy letters on my keyboard) point here. He is looking at a compromise of: > > 1. I want some documentation > 2. It doesn't ship from upstream (without crazy extra deps) > 3. Gentoo guy hooked me up and packaged it pre-built with it > 4. Thanks! > This seems rather more like an argument for reviving GRP with the flags to generate man pages enabled [1] and encouraging people to install from that without installing build-only dependencies if they need all of the documentation while maintaining a smaller installed footprint and dependency graphs than it does for requiring ebuild maintainers to jump through hoops and remove such flags because of yet another not quite thought through proposal.
[1] No points for guessing where a ready supply of prebuilt man pages could be found if that were to be done. Nor for realizing that making manpage packages out of it could probably be robustly scripted in less time than has been invested in this discussion so far.
