Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:17:11 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "svn-ports-head@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-ports-all@freebsd.org" <svn-ports-all@freebsd.org>, marino@freebsd.org, "ports-committers@freebsd.org" <ports-committers@freebsd.org>, Andrej Zverev <az@freebsd.org>, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r367002 - head/devel/cmake Message-ID: <920CCE92-B3FB-441C-904E-5F8F5E9F5AAF@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <20140902170825.GA50168@FreeBSD.org> References: <201409021339.s82DdX36038975@svn.freebsd.org> <A80106E3-30CD-4B45-859E-2F96BD1264FF@adamw.org> <CAD5bB%2BiLj%2BaHOHH1R-4ZXVj=JPMdnxe04C6w50WjHsVFe6Hnsw@mail.gmail.com> <5405E33B.3040906@marino.st> <EBCC13BE-C282-4072-AAE4-A2CB6AD91EAC@adamw.org> <5405E50B.1030100@marino.st> <30FDC48D-0DF1-4EBA-918D-878048101E21@adamw.org> <20140902170825.GA50168@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2 Sep, 2014, at 13:08, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 11:42:41AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: >> If it's on by default I don=92t see the problem. Who are we to decide = that >> nobody should ever be allowed to build a port without manpages? >=20 > Correct way out is to talk with upstream (yes, in every violating = case) to > provide pregen'ed manpages and/or documentaion in the release tarball = (or > separate file alongside). I do not disagree with you at all. If you can run autogen before you = release a tarball, surely you can pre-build your manpages. > Lots of people still build things from ports, either because they like = it > this way, or they're not happy with our official binary packages = (wrong > OPTIONS selection for them). We should try to make their lives = easier. Agreed. Again with the end-user experience thing, our job is to = anticipate what our end-users will want, and give them open doors to = walk through. I definitely think that, here, for now, a non-zero segment = of our user base would prefer no manpages to a dozen build-time = dependencies. FreeBSD is usually excellent at this concept. > I totally hate man/docs building. It has nothing do with my CPU; = those bits > most likely will be the same everywhere. Why not prebuild it then? Again, I do not disagree with you at all. In the absence of pre-built = manpages, however, mandatory sphinx is not the totally ideal solution. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org http://www.adamw.org
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