On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Short answer: according to Changelog, use USE=doc for iputils until > next version of iputils comes out (but be prepared to pull in *lots* > of stuff meanwhile). > > Somewhat longer answer: read > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158660 > > Essentially, building man pages for iputils requires openjade + > various docbook/sgml/xml tools.
<sigh> Code like this makes me want to vomit. The OS-that-shall-not-be-named pulls stunts like this, I really think FLOSS stuff should be better. So, I have to emerge an entire sgml kit to generate a man page. Wow. Especially since last time I looked, man pages were not in sgml format or even any format that vaguely resembles mark-up To the upstream iputils dev: "Dude, wtf were you thinking?" -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
