I guess it is cairo bug, as many other doc pacs are visible - glib, gtk, pango, atk, rsgv, xfce-related docs are among them. For cairo i see only vala api docs. For now i'm reading it by browser. Failed to find any questions/discussions about such problem. $ emerge --info x11-libs/cairo Portage 2.3.51 (python 3.5.5-final-0, !../../var/lib/layman/distros/profiles/CLDX/amd64, gcc-7.3.0, glibc-2.26-r7, 4.19.24-calculate x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.19.24-calculate-x86_64-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_CPU_B950_@_2.10GHz-with-gentoo-18.12 KiB Mem: 8047208 total, 149732 free KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388084 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 05:30:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 6231b5e7c3ac5cdc417bcb9d33a34ff8de6e42d6 Head commit of repository compiz-reloaded: 9ff144c39658add56712c01309d0321ac52b9664 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p5) 2.30.0 ccache version 3.3.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.24.3-r1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.14-r1::gentoo, 3.5.5::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.4.1-r2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.38.3-r1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 6.4.0-r1::gentoo, 7.3.0-r3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8-r1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.14::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.26-r7::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: git sync-uri: git://github.com/calculatelinux/gentoo.git priority: -1000 compiz-reloaded location: /var/lib/portage/overlays/compiz-reloaded sync-type: git sync-uri: https://github.com/kajzersoze/compiz-reloaded-overlay masters: gentoo nick87720z location: /usr/local/portage masters: 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sync-uri: https://github.com/brothermechanic/cg.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 deadbeef-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/deadbeef-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/damex/deadbeef-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 distros location: /var/lib/layman/distros sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/calculatelinux/distros.git masters: calculate gentoo priority: 50 dlang location: /var/lib/layman/dlang sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo/dlang.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 eclipse location: /var/lib/layman/eclipse sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo/eclipse-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 elementary location: /var/lib/layman/elementary sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/pimvullers/elementary.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 enlightenment-live location: /var/lib/layman/enlightenment-live sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/rafspiny/enlightenment-live.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 fkmclane location: /var/lib/layman/fkmclane sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/fkmclane/overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 gamerlay location: /var/lib/layman/gamerlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gamerlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 gnome location: /var/lib/layman/gnome sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/gnome.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 jorgicio location: /var/lib/layman/jorgicio sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/jorgicio/jorgicio-gentoo.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 lxde-gtk3 location: /var/lib/layman/lxde-gtk3 sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/rilian-la-te/lxde-gtk3-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 mv location: /var/lib/layman/mv sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/user/mv.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 mva location: /var/lib/layman/mva sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/msva/mva-overlay masters: gentoo priority: 50 octave location: /var/lib/layman/octave sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/rafaelmartins/octave-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 palemoon location: /var/lib/layman/palemoon sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/deu/palemoon-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 pentoo location: /var/lib/layman/pentoo sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 prism-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/prism-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/hasufell/prism-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 proaudio location: /var/lib/layman/proaudio sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/proaudio/proaudio/trunk/overlays/proaudio masters: gentoo priority: 50 qt location: /var/lib/layman/qt sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/qt.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 ring-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/ring-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/ring-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 rion location: /var/lib/layman/rion sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/rion-overlay/rion-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 rust location: /var/lib/layman/rust sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo-rust.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 science location: /var/lib/layman/science sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://anongit.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 simonvanderveldt location: /var/lib/layman/simonvanderveldt sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/simonvanderveldt/simonvanderveldt-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 stefantalpalaru location: /var/lib/layman/stefantalpalaru sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/gentoo-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 stuff location: /var/lib/layman/stuff sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/istitov/stuff.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 tox-overlay location: /var/lib/layman/tox-overlay sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/Tox/gentoo-overlay-tox.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 undesktop location: /var/lib/layman/undesktop sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://github.com/undesktop/undesktop-overlay.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 unity-gentoo location: /var/lib/layman/unity-gentoo sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: git://github.com/shiznix/unity-gentoo.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 wine location: /var/lib/layman/wine sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/proj/wine.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 xfce-dev location: /var/lib/layman/xfce-dev sync-type: laymansync sync-uri: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/xfce.git masters: gentoo priority: 50 Installed sets: @custom.cldx ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe 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They are present fine here. What does qlist -e x11-libs/cairo |grep gtk-doc show?
My appologies. I just tried devhelp under another user, which is almost sane (i never ran devhelp there before) and it is ok. But under my user it is not. Cairo html docs are where they should be, comparing to glib and gtk. Here I made somewhat compat content listing, to not bloat thread too much. $ qlist -e x11-libs/cairo | wc -l 143 $ LANG=C ls /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/cairo bindings-errors.html cairo-cairo-device-t.html bindings-fonts.html cairo-cairo-font-face-t.html bindings-memory.html cairo-cairo-font-options-t.html bindings-overloading.html cairo-cairo-matrix-t.html bindings-path.html cairo-cairo-pattern-t.html bindings-patterns.html cairo-cairo-scaled-font-t.html bindings-return-values.html cairo-cairo-surface-t.html bindings-streams.html cairo-cairo-t.html bindings-surfaces.html cairo-drawing.html cairo-Error-handling.html cairo-fonts.html cairo-FreeType-Fonts.html cairo-support.html cairo-Image-Surfaces.html cairo-surfaces.html cairo-PDF-Surfaces.html cairo-text.html cairo-PNG-Support.html cairo.devhelp2 cairo-Paths.html home.png cairo-PostScript-Surfaces.html index-1.10.html 'cairo-Quartz-(CGFont)-Fonts.html' index-1.12.html cairo-Quartz-Surfaces.html index-1.14.html cairo-Raster-Sources.html index-1.16.html cairo-Recording-Surfaces.html index-1.2.html cairo-Regions.html index-1.4.html cairo-SVG-Surfaces.html index-1.6.html cairo-Script-Surfaces.html index-1.8.html cairo-Tags-and-Links.html index-all.html cairo-Transformations.html index.html cairo-Types.html language-bindings.html cairo-User-Fonts.html left-insensitive.png cairo-Version-Information.html left.png cairo-Win32-Fonts.html right-insensitive.png cairo-Win32-Surfaces.html right.png cairo-XCB-Surfaces.html style.css cairo-XLib-Surfaces.html up-insensitive.png cairo-XLib-XRender-Backend.html up.png
Meanwhile i discovered, that under that user devhelp doesn't whow vala cairo api doc. My wild guess, that i did this mess by using quickDocs elementary-os app for some time. Or devhelp has some hidden mean to configure doc dirs.
After cleaning ~/.local/share/devhelp/books it is ok. Most of this stuff appeared to be vala docs, installed by quickDocs. What is interesting, some docs in this dir, e.g. glib gio and gtk+-3.0 did not shadow C docs from system dir. Looks like it is more about vala doc books theirselves.
Created attachment 572108 [details] screenshot of cairo devhelp Works for me here. Must be a local configuration problem on your system.
there could be something suboptimal going on with devhelp itself in the face of these local books, which we or upstream could do better. But otherwise, yeah.