On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable > > > only for those packages where you need extended documentation. > > > > @Alan Mackenzie: > > > > What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE > > > flags in the file /etc/portage/package.use; e.g. use an entry like: > What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and enable > it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra documentation that > general users don't need, man/info/html pages are included by default (at > least, that's how it is supposed to work, the odd package, like ffmpeg, > won't even include a man page without the doc flag).
The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile (amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in /etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need it in /etc/portage/package.use. -- Regards, Mick
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