On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:45:35 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have > > horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML > > and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering > > towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring me whole and > > consigning my soul to oblivion. > > > > "USE=doc" is truly the stuff of which nightmares are made. > > It isn't all that bad. I have "doc" enabled globally. Yes, some > packages take a while longer - but then, in most cases I want the > documentation anyway. I haven't been haunted by this so far. ;-)
It's not just the extra build time for the packages but the huge dependencies the flag adds to some builds, all to generate documentation I wouldn't understand anyway :( % grep -r doc /etc/portage/package.use | wc -l 8 That's more than enough for me! -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, well...darn.
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