The (strangely named) --enable/disable-asciidoc configure switch enables or disables building of .html pages and .1 man pages. The switch is strangely named, because .1.txt ASCII files already exist in the tarball, and are not generated during make. These are the files that the ebuild installs only with USE=doc: /usr/share/doc/tor-0.2.2.35/tor-gencert.html /usr/share/doc/tor-0.2.2.35/tor.html /usr/share/doc/tor-0.2.2.35/torify.html /usr/share/doc/tor-0.2.2.35/tor-resolve.html /usr/share/man/man1/tor.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/tor-gencert.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/torify.1.bz2 /usr/share/man/man1/tor-resolve.1.bz2 It seems that --enable-asciidoc should be provided to configure unconditionally, and .html files should or should not be installed depending on USE=doc.
I don't see a problem here. USE="doc" installs the man pages and the html, USE="-doc" does not. The html pages are just the html equivalent of the man pages and so should or should not be installed with them. So as far as Gentoo is concerned, the USE flag has the correct behavior. As for the name of the switch. I have no problems with what they call it. If you feel strongly about that, then pass a bug upstream.
[- ] doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally The doc USE flag shouldn't control the man pages, which are installed unconditionally in every other package. Why should tor be an exception? I don't care about which switch controls the HTML pages, but I (and any other user) expect to have manpages available after an emerge (if the package provides them). I mentioned the configure switch name because tor installed man pages previously, so I figured that the new switch confused someone.
(In reply to comment #2) > The doc USE flag shouldn't control the man pages, which are installed > unconditionally in every other package. Why should tor be an exception? Okay I just bounced this off some other devs. FEATURES="noman" controls man pages, USE="doc" should then be used only for extra API docs. The html are mirror images of the man pages, so I have yet to think about whether I want them unconditionally or not.
The man pages are now installed unconditionally and USE="doc" has been removed from all but the stabe ebuild: tor-0.2.2.35.ebuild. I am installing the .html man pages unconditionally too under /usr/share/doc. Its not hard to remove them, but it does mean having to patch the build system and run eautoreconf. I'd rather not do that unless there is a good reason. I would also add USE="html" to control that if needed.
Thanks! I don't think that splitting HTML documentation is worth the effort. Although you wouldn't need to patch the build system, as post-build removal would probably suffice.
please stabilize. the bug is trivial and the issue was really annoying to research.
(In reply to comment #6) > please stabilize. > the bug is trivial and the issue was really annoying to research. I think we should wait for the next release of tor.
