Bug 73243

Summary:	USE=doc rebuilds docs, doesn't control optional installation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) <carlo>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	minor	CC:	betelgeuse, magnade
Priority:	Lowest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-03 10:53:33 UTC

see summary

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-03 10:59:53 UTC

Oh well, just noticed, that more or less the whole gnome stuff installs its reference docs, even though -doc use flag is used. that's definitely not user documentation and i bet i'm not the only one, who is not interested in it.

Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-03 23:59:46 UTC

well if it gets installed anyway, it is not optional .. so we have no say about it.

But serious, we've known this for a long long time and never got around to spending time on it & nobody ever noticed.

The problem really is the different interpretations of the gtk-doc switch over time imho, there are a few packages that 'do it right'.

Comment 3 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-30 02:10:14 UTC

*** Bug 80667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-02-11 12:07:03 UTC

*** Bug 122451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-01 04:31:50 UTC

What the gtk-doc option does is up to individual packages.  There's no way to generally fix issues like this.  If there are issues with specific packages, bugs for those packages are warrented.