On Sunday 22 March 2009 21:53:25 Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:43:29 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> I normally like to have the documentation built for all packages. > >> Therefore I have added 'doc' to /etc/make.conf USE > > > > Are you aware that the doc USE flag normally controls extra > > documentation, such as API docs for devs? Normal documentation, like man > > and info pages, is generally built by default. You're probably better off > > with -doc in make.conf and only enable it for the packages you need. > > This is true. I have had -doc in make.conf for a looooong time and I > still have all the man and info pages. I can't say that I have even > missed anything really.
Same here. Well, almost. I have USE=doc set for 13 packages thinking at the time they were extremely useful. In practise the only one I have ever actually referred to is the html version of the mplayer man page. Go figure :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
