Bug 955680

Summary:	media-gfx/imv: build dependency asciidoc should be optional
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Yakumo <yakumo839>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Ionen Wolkens <ionen>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	yakumo839
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Yakumo 2025-05-09 12:45:08 UTC

imv uses a2x, a python script provided by app-text/asciidoc, to generate man pages. There is a meson feature option to choose enable man pages or not. So I think it will be nice if users can toggle it via a man use flag or something.

Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens gentoo-dev

2025-05-09 22:50:30 UTC

man pages aren't supposed to e guarded behind a USE per Gentoo policy [1]

If this was a more problematic dependency (e.g. asciidoctor which pulls the whole ruby stack), I'd have considered adding pre-generated man pages but asciidoc is rather trivial and IMHO not worth an extra maintenance burden to skip a build-only dep. Not that it'd be much of one right now considering imv upstream is currently dead and looking for a new maintainer, so releases are very rare.

[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0305

Comment 2 Yakumo 2025-05-10 14:18:33 UTC

Oh sorry. I didn't notice the policy.
Thank you for your help.