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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:37:01 +0000
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Subject:   [Bug 193183] [STAGE] net/beacon: Request MAINTAINERship, pkg-descr cleanup
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--- Comment #29 from C Hutchinson <portmaster@bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to John Marino from comment #28)
> I did some research.
> compress-man target is essentially an internal target.  It can be
> overridden.  Your definition of MANCOMPRESSED here did nothing.
> 
> I think if you had:
> compress-man:
> YOUR_MAMA_IS=UGLY
> 
> it would have the same effect.  (Try it!)
> It basically blocked the default "compress-man" target from executing.  
> by the way, anything after a target has to be indented.  I'm not sure why
> make(1) didn't scream at you.
Ahh. So this (compress-man:) is an [unintended] _feature_. :)
Meaning; If I use
compress-man:
MANCOMPRESSED=    no

man(1) && perldoc(1) pages are left un-gzipped && copied to their
intended destination(s) -- really, I tried it. UNindented.
BUT if I omit that block, the man(1) && perldoc(1) pages, are packed
in their intended destination(s) -- really, I tried it. :)
In both cases, the files DO get installed. Either  gzipped | UNgzipped;
depending upon the whether MANCOMPRESSED is defined, or not.

I have no explanation for it all. I just only discovered it. It might
be interesting to take the time to find, and unwind the logic that even
[still] permits this. But my plate [as you've already discovered] is nearly
overflowing, as it is. :)

P.S. _love_ the YOUR_MAMA_IS=UGLY example. :) Good thing I'm not
sensitive, that way. ;)

> 
> 
> > It's a perlbrew||cpanminus -ism. I cobbled a Perl script to clean up this
> > very thing. But since it's empty (of documentation), it's harmless. So
> > I didn't think it worth bothering with. If it bothers you. I can deal
> > with the Module' extra entry, and bump it's version, to reflect that.
> > But IMHO, in the here-and-now. It doesn't really seem necessary.
> > Personally, I'm glad that this showed up. As I gained some useful
> > information, where man(1) && perldoc(1) pages are concerned, when
> > dealing with ports.
> 
> I don't really follow.
> If you don't install this file, does anything break or malfunction?

No. No issue, at all. It's [supposed] to only be appended to, as|if needed.
Go ahead, and issue a perldoc perllocal. You may, or may not get something.
Depending if there's any contents|exists, in your [Perl] install(s).


Thanks, John.

--Chris

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