311405 – app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r3: 9 of 37 Mb are docs, please add doc USE flag

Bug 311405 - app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r3: 9 of 37 Mb are docs, please add doc USE flag

Summary: app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r3: 9 of 37 Mb are docs, please add doc USE flag

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Printing Team

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Reported:	2010-03-26 08:16 UTC by Nikoli
Modified:	2013-04-01 21:30 UTC (History)
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Description Nikoli 2010-03-26 08:16:49 UTC

9442    /usr/share/doc/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r3
[ Searching for packages matching ghostscript-gpl... ]
* size of app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.64-r3
           Total files : 672
    Inaccessible files : 15
           Total size  : 37102.17 KiB


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-26 08:44:29 UTC

man 5 make.conf -> FEATURES="nodoc"

USE="doc" controls doc generation deps, not docs itself

Comment 2 Timo Gurr (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-09-01 14:00:07 UTC

As Samuli said, please use your package managers ability to control doc installation.

Comment 3 Nikoli 2012-07-14 15:37:41 UTC

I disagree. Global USE "doc" controls docs installation. It may control building only if it is required for installation.
$ grep ^doc profiles/use.desc 
doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of global

Look at media-libs/freetype ebuilds, it does not build docs:
doc?    ( mirror://sourceforge/freetype/${PN}-doc-${PV}.tar.bz2 )"
use doc && dohtml -r docs/*

USE "doc" wrongly controls docs rebuilding for gnome packages, see bug 262491
But app-text/ghostscript-gpl is not using gnome2.eclass

Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2013-04-01 21:30:25 UTC

As Samuli and Timo already said, official stance is that useflag doc is wrong here. Usage is not uniform over the tree, but we should not make it worse.