See < https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58338 > with title "lots-o-ports: decide
on common variant name to build documentation: +docs or +doc".
There are approximately 128 ports that use +doc or +docs as the variant to
build documentation. Of those, approximately 75 use +docs, while the rest --
approximately 53 ports -- use +doc.
[[I say "approximately" because I did a global search in the ports tree using a
specific pattern ("variant doc " and "variant docs " with the extra space) as
well as just {"variant doc" | grep docs}, the latter of which returns slightly
different results (& I can think of lots of reasons why but the result are
similar; hence "approximately ...).]]
Because we can individually set global default variants, one could choose to
set both here to get documentation to build, but I'll agree with Blair that
just setting one is preferable. Hence, it would not hurt to, as a group of
developers the users of MacPorts, decide which variant name should be the
sanctioned way to build documentation, and then tweak those non-conforming
ports to use the correct variant name.
Please direct your thoughts to that ticket to keep everything easily in one
place. This email is mostly to direct your attention to this specific ticket /
topic. Thanks! - MLD
