105457 – qmail doesn't need to "make man"

Bug 105457 - qmail doesn't need to "make man"

Summary: qmail doesn't need to "make man"

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-09-09 22:59 UTC by Georgi Georgiev
Modified:	2005-09-12 17:02 UTC (History)
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Description Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-09 22:59:43 UTC

the qmail ebuilds run "emake it man", but there is not need for "man". make man
creates parsed man pages (*.0), but the ebuild then installs the original man
pages (*.[1-8]) -- absolutely pointless.

Comment 1 Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-09 23:15:48 UTC

I spoke too fast. make man creates the following man pages:

dot-qmail.5 qmail-control.5 qmail-getpw.8 qmail-limits.7 qmail-newmrh.8
qmail-newbrt.8 qmail-newu.8 qmail-pw2u.8 qmail-send.8 qmail-start.8 qmail-users.5

Could add them to the command line in place of "man"

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-10 01:45:38 UTC

Closing.

Comment 3 Georgi Georgiev 2005-09-12 17:02:57 UTC

Mmmm, just thought of something else. If the .0 pages are not generated, i.e. if
the ebuild does not do "make man", then there would be no sys-apps/groff
dependency. And what is groff depended on for? To generate pages that are discarded.

Anyway, just wanted to through in this comment.