The "doc" flag is currently documented as: Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally However, the flag is required to install the regular man pages. I'm not sure if this should be that way due to the asciidoc dependency, but I'd expect this flag to toggle building docs stored under /usr/doc, not the regular program's man pages. If this really needs an option, maybe turn it on by default?
Good point, thanks for the report! Upstream flag is for doc and man pages at same time (and asciidoc) though that current release only has man pages I will fix in a similar way to some packages with same issue: * adding local description to explain this is yet another package needing long train of dependencies to buid man pages not included by default * and make it enabled by default
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8d970c3e1e2303d6a251f9a05aae797385eae153 commit 8d970c3e1e2303d6a251f9a05aae797385eae153 Author: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-12-16 09:39:33 +0000 Commit: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-12-16 10:26:16 +0000 x11-misc/picom: add local description and enable by default USE=doc The flag controls doc and man pages build at same time, detail this and enable so users get man pages Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/702940 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.82, Repoman-2.3.20 Signed-off-by: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@gentoo.org> x11-misc/picom/metadata.xml | 1 + x11-misc/picom/picom-7.5.ebuild | 2 +- x11-misc/picom/picom-9999.ebuild | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
