Bug 105457

Summary:	qmail doesn't need to "make man"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Georgi Georgiev <chutz+bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-09 22:59:43 UTC

the qmail ebuilds run "emake it man", but there is not need for "man". make man
creates parsed man pages (*.0), but the ebuild then installs the original man
pages (*.[1-8]) -- absolutely pointless.

Comment 1 Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-09 23:15:48 UTC

I spoke too fast. make man creates the following man pages:

dot-qmail.5 qmail-control.5 qmail-getpw.8 qmail-limits.7 qmail-newmrh.8
qmail-newbrt.8 qmail-newu.8 qmail-pw2u.8 qmail-send.8 qmail-start.8 qmail-users.5

Could add them to the command line in place of "man"

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-10 01:45:38 UTC

Closing.

Comment 3 Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-12 17:02:57 UTC

Mmmm, just thought of something else. If the .0 pages are not generated, i.e. if
the ebuild does not do "make man", then there would be no sys-apps/groff
dependency. And what is groff depended on for? To generate pages that are discarded.

Anyway, just wanted to through in this comment.