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.


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