On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:52:56 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Does bind-tools really need packages like sphinxcontrib-qthelp, > > sphinxcontrib-applehelp, sphinxcontrib-jsmath, > > sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp? > > All of these are unfortunate consequences of Sphinx's hefty dependency > list [3]. It seems that as the manual pages are installed with the > package (regardless of the `doc` USE-flag),
That's to be expected, the doc flag is supposed to control the installation of extra documentation. > there is no way of > mitigating this dependency bloat with the bind-tools 9.16 series. > Hopefully this can be addressed by the developers in future. Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, although I don't know if this is considered good practice. -- Neil Bothwick Man and mouse are alike, both end up in pussy :)
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