Info pages are not installed though they are build with USE="doc". Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="doc" emerge git 2. info git 3. No menu item `git' in node `(dir)Top'. Actual Results: info pages not installed Expected Results: info pages should be installed with USE="doc" As a side note: should USE="doc" really install html and info? what about pdf? Maybe seperate useflags would be better.
Created attachment 205685 [details, diff] install info pages with USE="doc" I used 'make install-info'; you might want to use doinfo instead.
They are NOT pre-built by upstream in the normal releases, so I'm not sure what path we should take for them. If we start building info docs for the non-9999 ebuilds, then we might as well build the html too? Installing info+html with USE=doc is consistent with other parts of Gentoo.
Well, I care more about the two other git bugs I recently reported and which have been fixed already. I just stumbled over this when reporting 287104 and 287101. I don't care much if you install only html or only info or both, are provide a method to freely choose any one of these options. The only thing that is clearly wrong is to install none. So if the Gentoo way is to install both then do so. But I think that a user won't very often be interested in both html and info. Installing both will make it a little wrong eight way. Installing just one is very wrong if the user is interested in the other. I think the two valid options are to either install both or provide different flags to select independently. doc-->html docinfo-->info info (seams to be:) Provides a comprehensive overview of the server configuration
(In reply to comment #2) > If we start building info docs for the non-9999 ebuilds, then we might as well > build the html too? What would be the advantage of that? > Installing info+html with USE=doc is consistent with other parts of Gentoo. I second for this approach.
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #2) > > If we start building info docs for the non-9999 ebuilds, then we might as well > > build the html too? > What would be the advantage of that? One less download only.
Let me propose this: - Always build info files for USE=doc - Add missing dependency on texinfo - Build PDF for USE=doc-pdf (as it involves LaTeX dependencies) Please give me green to go for it.
Should be fixed in 1.6.5.1-r1 now.
