On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 02:37:21PM EDT, Gleb Popov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM void <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Can DOCS include MANPAGES? > > I'd like to build my ports with just manpages and examples. > > Does disabling DOCS globally also clobber ports manpages? > > I'm not a portmgr, so this is all my humble opinion: > Ideally we should strive to separate DOCS and MANPAGES. But sometimes > the software's buildsystem has a single "docs" switch that controls > both manpages and html/pdf/etc. generation. In this case I don't go as > far as decoupling DOCS and MANPAGES and stick with only DOCS. >
sub-packages solve this for all cases. You might still have to build them but they get their own package.
