Bug 920885

Summary:	dev-libs/libxml2: installs docs with FEATURES=nodoc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	om3i <r9ku1q>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	ionen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description om3i 2023-12-28 10:58:25 UTC

It places the documentation at /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxml2/

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2023-12-28 11:17:38 UTC

FEATURES="nodoc" is just to remove basic /usr/share/doc location docs (meant to be opened directly by users) rather than guess what every ebuilds may install and where that are often meant to be read by specific applications (e.g. qt-creator and assistant reads /usr/share/qt*-doc, and it would be an issue FEATURES="nodoc" casually deleted them, dev-qt/qt-docs would even install nothing).

If you really want to remove other files and certain you don't need them, you can use portage's INSTALL_MASK variable directly (nodoc is a rough equivalent that only does INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/doc").