Saw this on lwn.net. Bad ebuild ugliness installing the docs. # Copyright 1999-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later # Author Gontran Zepeda <gontran@gontran.net> S=${WORKDIR}/${P} DESCRIPTION="Twisted is a collection of servers and clients, which can be \ used either by developers of new applications or directly. Documentation included." SRC_URI="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/downloads/${P}.tar.bz2" HOMEPAGE="http://www.twistedmatrix.com/" DEPEND="virtual/python" src_compile() { cp setup.py setup.py.orig python setup.py build || die } src_install() { python setup.py install --root=${D} --prefix=/usr || die # next few lines will install docs: 9.4 megs! dodir /usr/share/doc/${PF} # of course it's documentation! cd doc cp -r . ${D}/usr/share/doc/${PF} cd ../ rm -rf doc/man # don't dupe the man pages doman doc/man/* dodoc README TODO CREDITS }
fex. Extra 'cp setup.py setup.py.orig' left over from cut and paste.
Will get to it. Sorry about the delay.
Available as dev-python/twisted-0.18.0