On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 11:12:32AM -0500, Ned Ludd wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 00:48 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Monday 28 November 2005 00:05, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > > 3) FEATURES="noman" is dropped in favour of USE="man" or USE="manpages" > > > > > > In light of the above requirements and the fact that dyn_* will likely be > > > moved into the tree down the track, #3 seems to be the best in my mind. > > > Similarly, it would solve the previously discussed problems related to > > > FEATURES="test".
this seems like the best idea imo too ... > > I'd be very interested in people's thoughts on this. The more I think about > > it, the more I think it's the most appropriate solution. Nothing in > > FEATURES="noman nodoc noinfo test" affects portage whatsoever other than > > "noinfo" which (only recently) prevents emerge from regenerating info > > indexes. That one could be handled by a hook (although not yet available) > > and > > the rest could easily be switched to USE flags. > > USE=(man|info|doc) wont quite work. > While they could have an advantage that you can use them to control > depend strings the doc use flag has already been heavily used for other > things which everybody surely wont want. i dont see what USE=doc has to do with this ? doc should never be used to control manpages in ebuilds now ... -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
