When reminding folks to install the docs, also remind them that they should be using the 'doc' USE flag. This USE flag is the standard way to enable/disable doc installation, and we don't want ebuilds blindly installing docs regardless of how it's set. Patch in https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/23 Reproducible: Always
To be more specific, from use.desc: doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally I usually take that to mean developer docs, rather than end-user docs.
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1) > doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended > to enable per package instead of globally > > I usually take that to mean developer docs, rather than end-user docs. Ah, so end-user docs always, and developer docs depending on 'doc'? How good are projects about distinguishing between user-facing and developer-facing docs? I expect any source that comes with in-tarball docs (which seems to be what these notes are aiming at with “If your package has documentation”) is going to have developer-facing docs in the mix, and I don't know how easy it will be to toggle the developer docs in the build system. Personally, I see no need to make a developer/end-user distinction. End users are probably going to mind a few extra API docs less than embedded folks are going to mind enforced user docs ;). If we do want to make that distinction, we should echo it in this package.
Any small size documentation should be installed unconditionally. USE="doc" is for anything that is a) large or b) requires additional dependencies to build.
(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #3) > Any small size documentation should be installed unconditionally. USE="doc" > is for anything that is a) large or b) requires additional dependencies to > build. That's a distinction that makes more sense to me. I've updated my patch accordingly.
(In reply to W. Trevor King from comment #0) > Patch in https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/pull/23 This pull request was just merged.
