When emerging dev-lang/python with FEATURES="noman" it warns: * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.bz2 symlink It think the ebuild should be changed to only symlink the man-page in pkg_postinst() when noman is unset Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: a small warning: * Unable to establish /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.bz2 symlink Expected Results: no warning :) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4 (uclibc/x86, gcc-4.2.2, uclibc-0.9.28.3-r2, 2.6.24-rc6-git9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-rc6-git9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:46:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i386-gentoo-linux-uclibc" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/var/db/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo noman parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3 -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/db/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="minimal nocxx unicode x86" ELIBC="uclibc" KERNEL="linux" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Checking for portage-specific features in ebuilds/eckasses is an icky idea (see Bug 174335), plus the whole no{doc,man,info} features stuff is just a hack.
