x11-themes/mosfet-liquid-widgets uses the kde eclass. Since the kde eclass is meant for many and many ebuilds, it has a 'dodoc' statement: <snip> dodoc) debug-print-section dodoc dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog README* COPYING NEWS TODO ;; </snip> Btw, mosfet-liquid-widgets (maybe other ebuilds?) doesn't have README, AUTHORS, etc.. So .. here's the output we get: [...] make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mosfet-liquid-widgets-0.9.5/work/mosfet-liquid0.9.5' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mosfet-liquid-widgets-0.9.5/work/mosfet-liquid0.9.5' /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: AUTHORS does not exist. /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: ChangeLog does not exist. /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: README* does not exist. /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: COPYING does not exist. /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: NEWS does not exist. /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: TODO does not exist. strip: /var/tmp/portage/mosfet-liquid-widgets-0.9.5/image/usr/lib/libkcm_liquid.so [...] This is a "normal" output since the 'dodoc' code already provides a check. <snip> if [ -e ${x} ] then [.....] else echo "${0}: ${x} does not exist." fi </snip> Btw, we could avoid this output by adding a double check in the kde eclass. for instance: for i in AUTHORS ChangeLog README* COPYING NEWS TODO; do [ -e ${i} ] && dodoc ${i}; done I'm aware this will have low priority, so I'm marking this bug as "enhancement". Thanks :)
I'll add this soon as I have a few free moments...
another solution would be the one adopted by the gnome guys that I've just noticed. from gnome2.eclass: gnome2_src_install() { [.....] # manual document installation if [ -n "${DOCS}" ] then dodoc ${DOCS} fi [.....] } and then they simply define the DOCS="README NEWS whatever" variable in the various ebuild.
No, that would destroy the whole idea of automatically getting whatever docs are available without the ebuild doing anything about it explicitly. I've implemented the original solution, committing in a few minutes from now. Sorry this took so long...
