Bug 143475 – app-doc/xorg-docs - multiple issues

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-08-10 09:23:33 UTC]

I wanted to look at some xorg spec today and noticed the following:

a) .ps and .html files are zipped. I don't have a desktop application that reads those zipped files, please install them plain.

b) The specs don't get installed at all.

c) A xorg-doc ebuild with a doc use flag leaves only a question mark in ones head.  Please drop the flag or do that and create an extra xorg-man-pages package, if you want to be able to install the man pages separately.

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-08-10 09:27:43 UTC]

Eh, drop b) - blind /me didn't look into ../hardcopy/.

[Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-08-10 09:55:42 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> a) .ps and .html files are zipped. I don't have a desktop application that
> reads those zipped files, please install them plain.

Portage does this for html files, not the xorg-docs ebuild. You'll have to file a bug to them. As for the postscript files, it is not my fault that you've chosen not to install a program capable of reading them through gzip -- evince does this just fine.

> c) A xorg-doc ebuild with a doc use flag leaves only a question mark in ones
> head.  Please drop the flag or do that and create an extra xorg-man-pages
> package, if you want to be able to install the man pages separately.

It leaves no question in my mind, because the doc USE flag is for docs that require extra effort to build or are for developers.

/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc:doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc)

The only bug to fix here is that portage is wrongly gzipping html files. Would you like me to reassign this, or would you prefer to file a new one?

[Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-08-27 02:21:53 UTC]

CLosing, no response.