On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:45:02 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The doc use flag is used where there is a reason to make > > documentation optional rather than mandatory. Examples of such > > reasons include increased dependencies (e.g. Doxygen, which pulls > > in a fair bit), increased build time (e.g. Doxygen, which can be > > frickin' slow) or substantially increased disk usage. If there's no > > substantial cost to documentation, it should always be installed. > > > > Yep but we should for example document what constitues increased disk > usage. How about "several megabytes or tens of files"?
It's a package dependent quantity, and should be left up to individual maintainers. Vim's documentation, for example, is a lot of files and a lot of disk space, but it isn't shipped via USE="doc" because it's considered by upstream to be a vital part of the package. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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