182742 – request man pages for net-misc/iputils

Bug 182742 - request man pages for net-misc/iputils

Summary: request man pages for net-misc/iputils

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158660

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-06-20 23:59 UTC by ta2002
Modified:	2007-06-27 13:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description ta2002 2007-06-20 23:59:20 UTC

Looking at the ebuilds for net-misc/iputils, it seems that man pages only get installed (and even generated, no less) only with the doc USE flag set (which demands installation of all of the docbook stuff).

It seems worthwhile to me to have man pages for utilities like ping, so I believe that pre-generated man pages should be created (stored in ${FILESDIR}), and installed with the doc USE flag unset. I know that Gentoo creates some of its own man pages for some programs (like tar), so a precedent does exist to do this.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-21 06:36:45 UTC

  21 Dec 2006; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> iputils-20060512.ebuild:
  Only generate man pages for USE=doc until next release where they include
  man pages #158660.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158660 ***

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-27 13:44:26 UTC

*** Bug 183399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***