On 2019.07.17 14:25, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, > > The QA team would like to introduce the following policy: > > """ > Packages must not disable installing manpages via USE flags (e.g. > USE=man or USE=doc). If upstream does not ship prebuilt manpages > and building them requires additional dependencies, the maintainer > should build them and ship along with the package. > """ > > > Explanatory note: > > This applies to having USE flags that specifically control building > manpages. It obviously does not affect: > > a. USE flags that disable building both a program and its manpage > (e.g. > if USE=gui disables building gfrobnicate, not installing > gfrobnicate(1) > is correct), > > b. use of LINGUAS to control installed manpages. > > > Rationale: > > Manpages are the basic form of user documentation on Gentoo Linux. > Not > installing them is harmful to our users. On the other hand, requiring > additional dependencies is inconvenient. Therefore, packaging > prebuilt > manpages (whenever upstream doesn't do that already) is a good > compromise that provides user with documentation without additional > dependencies. > > > What are your comments? > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > >
Michał, This works on systems with plenty of resources. I suspect very few arm users have man/doc/info pages installed. FEATURES="noman nodoc noinfo" is less than ideal as everything is still built, so you pay the build time, but not installed. Does anyone read documentation on embedded class hardware? I know I don't. Personally, I don't build much on embedded hardware either but I'm aware of users that do. I like to have the choice to not build documentation on low power systems. Its a part of Gentoos flexibility that should not be removed. -- Regards, Roy Bamford (Neddyseagoon) a member of elections gentoo-ops forum-mods arm64
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