Bug 69127 – honor -doc in USE when doing dodoc

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Stephen Leaf 2004-10-27 05:45:59 UTC]

afaik the -doc should stop documentation from being installed however it would appear that it's not being done in the dodoc command and rather the ebuild maintainers must do a 
use doc && dodoc ...

can this be changed so that portage checks if the user wants documentation to be installed in the dodoc command?

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Stephen Leaf 2004-10-27 06:01:45 UTC]

adding
if [ "${USE}" != "${USE%-doc%}" ] ; then

around the content seems to work great :)

[Comment 2 Alexandru Toma 2004-10-27 09:40:39 UTC]

AFAIK the doc use flag should only be used when there is _extra_ documentation that can be installed (i.e. HTML docs). Basic docs (README, TODO, ChangeLog, etc.) should always be installed.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-27 15:06:27 UTC]

doc is for documentation ABOVE AND BEYOND the normal amount

what you want is FEATURES=nodoc, see `man make.conf`

[Comment 4 Stephen Leaf 2004-10-30 21:47:20 UTC]

I consider man pages to be documentation.. and anything else to be extra (README, TODO, ChangeLog, etc.)

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-10-30 21:57:51 UTC]

it really doesnt matter what you think USE=doc should mean, we're not going to change