The doc USE flag in the ebuild for dovecot-2.3.21.1 does not do anything, although it is listed in the available USE flags. Full documentation is always installed regardless of the state of the 'doc' USE flag. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable the doc USE flag for dovecot (this is the default) in package.use 2. emerge net-mail/dovecot 3. Full documentation still in /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.3.21.1/ Actual Results: Full documentation for dovecot is installed into /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.3.21.1/ in spite of the 'doc' USE flag being disabled. Expected Results: /usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.3.21.1 should probably not exist if the 'doc' USE flag is disabled. If the documentation directory does exist, it should contain only minimal information (README, AUTHORS perhaps? - minimal required by upstream). There should probably be separate USE flags for example configurations and documentation if this is going to remain, or simply remove the 'doc' USE flag from the ebuild if documentation/examples should always be installed (current behavior). 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Nothing in the ebuild content matches to it. Seems that this useflag never done anything or is trace of a short period with sphinx required : https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/net-mail/dovecot?id=56bd759df1d0c750a065b8c845e93d5dfa6b549d There is an option enabled by default in upstream : https://github.com/dovecot/core/blob/main/configure.ac#L232 Without dep requirement, why not delete the useflag and add --with-docs in src_configure to be exhaustive.
(In reply to Nicolas PARLANT from comment #1) > Nothing in the ebuild content matches to it. Agreed. I also looked over some of the other ebuilds and it looks like the 'doc' flag is not necessarily what I said, but what you said in your response in that it was when documentation build dependencies exist (which don't seem to be the case here). > Without dep requirement, why not delete the useflag and add --with-docs in > src_configure to be exhaustive. Since --with-docs is the default for the configure script, this could be done but probably not necessary.
