Summary: | app-text/man2html: resurrect since man-db doesn't provide it | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Ian Abbott <ian> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | nx, ulm |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261347 | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Ian Abbott
2014-08-08 10:07:21 UTC
I forgot to mention that a man2html package would be useful in its own right (particularly the web CGI aspects) for those of us who have sys-apps/man-db installed and might be missing this functionality. if only one package wants `man2html`, then a virtual is not warranted there's also a dedicated perl script: http://www.nongnu.org/man2html/ but it doesn't look terribly viable either (In reply to SpanKY from comment #2) > if only one package wants `man2html`, then a virtual is not warranted TBH, the one package that does want `man2html` (net-misc/x2goserver) probably doesn't need it anyway (see bug #519424). > > there's also a dedicated perl script: > http://www.nongnu.org/man2html/ > > but it doesn't look terribly viable either Yes, the project doesn't look very lively, and all the config options are set in the CGI script itself. Indeed net-misc/x2goserver does not need it anymore (for current versions in tree), I just cleaned the dependency (In reply to Bernard Cafarelli from comment #4) thanks, let's just sit on this for now then (In reply to Ian Abbott from comment #1) > I forgot to mention that a man2html package would be useful in its own right > (particularly the web CGI aspects) for those of us who have sys-apps/man-db > installed and might be missing this functionality. With or without virtual, it would be nice if this could be factored out into its own package. Otherwise, the blocker between man and man-db will prevent installation of man2html when man-db is installed. For example, man2html is needed for converting the eclass manpages which are included in the devmanual, see bug 536654. |