On 06/07/2016 04:59 PM, Austin English wrote: > > On 06/07/2016 06:19 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> On 07/06/16 23:50, NP-Hardass wrote: >>> From what I've seen, HACKING is a fairly common doc in FOSS projects. >>> It doesn't seem to have been included in the default DOCS for >>> einstalldocs in EAPI6. While going through the MATE packages, I noticed >>> that we have quite a few packages that include HACKING in DOCS, so I >>> cannot delete the DOCS array and take advantage of the automagic doc >>> detection feature of einstalldocs. >>> >>> Does anyone know why we omitted this file from the default DOCS? A >>> quick grep of the main repo shows ~370 ebuilds with HACKING listed. Is >>> this file no longer considered worthy of being included by default in >>> our installed docs? If so, looking for advice on whether it is worth >>> keeping or dropping that file from my packages? >>> >> I made the suggestion a while back in IRC that it would be nice if there >> was a way to append to the DOCS array in an ebuild, rather than have to >> override it, and remember the standard list every time, or just lose the >> extra file(s). Unfortunately I was laughed out of the channel. So, >> whilst it would probably be something for another EAPI change .. what do >> readers think of the idea of an EXTRA_DOCS variable or similar method >> for doing this, for exactly this reason/purpose?? > >> MJE > > Some way to append docfiles would be very welcome IMO. > > Agreed. We can already add on to other arrays or lists, why should DOCS be any different? -- Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6
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