On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Sebastian Pipping <[email protected]> wrote: >> * Now we need to have a build time dependency, at least for the live >> ebuild, which pulls in about 34mb of downloads just to build the man >> page. >> >> Since we are just talking about a man page, imho this is a lot of bloat >> for very little gain. > > I disagree on bloat and on little gain. > > If you insist on changing status quo I would like to call in a vote.
Well, in fairness, the asciidoc dependency was just added a day or so ago. But, I really don't think it's as big a problem as this long email thread warrants. We simply want to avoid asciidoc, and specifically it's dependencies, for catalyst snapshots. For the live ebuild, I don't see the dependencies as a problem. Can't we simply get the timestamp of the last commit to the git branch/tag that we're making an archive from and apply it to the generated content? Doing this would allow us to reproduce an identical tarball, and avoids a lot of other problems discussed in this thread. Thanks, Matt
