On 05/11/2017 12:51 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > In fact, I'm personally leaning towards not building docs at all > in ebuilds. It's practically a wasted effort since most of the time > users read docs online anyway.
I believe that's a little myopic; a user (or even developer) may not have Internet access all the time, or may not have it in their primary development environment. Having a copy of the docs locally (the entire point of USE="doc") is super valuable to have when you're away from the network. I'm sure I'm not alone as one of the people who uses the flag and appreciates the work that goes into making sure said flag works. Sure, we could yank out every single USE="doc", but then we lose a nice feature of the tree and users are back to either (a) trawling the Web to find the project site, then hope they have docs in a separate download, or (b) we end up with foo+1 packages, one extra for any package that has documentation. Neither are particularly good solutions; Debian has done the latter and it results in a huge number of packages for little gain. -- 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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