On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:13:13 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/09/2016 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I've created an ebuild for net-misc/zerotier [1]. This has a BDEP on > > app-text/ronn, the build system uses it to create the man pages. The > > trouble is that ronn is a Ruby program and pulls in a shedload of > > dependencies, just to install man pages. > > Ruby packages (besides dev-lang/ruby itself) install quickly, like perl > packages, so this isn't a *huge* deal. They can also be removed > afterwards with a depclean.
That's when it really hurt, installing on a system without ruby itself.
That's when I looked at alternatives.
> > It seems to me to make more sense to put pre-built man pages in
> > ${FILESDIR}/${PV} and copy them with doman. Is this considered the
> > correct or acceptable way to deal with this?
>
> It's up to you. If they release a new version every day, it's going to
> get real annoying to regenerate the man pages each time. Also keep an
> eye on the size of the man pages. We have a soft limit of "a few
> kilobytes" for things in FILESDIR,
There's only three of them, totally 15kB uncompressed.
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Neil Bothwick
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