The doc USE flag for app-text/texlive-2011 should be inherited for all pulled packages... disi-bigtop ~ # emerge -pv $(qlist -C -I texlive) These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-text/texlive-core-2011-r4 USE="X xetex -cjk -doc -source -tk" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-documentation-base-2011 USE="-source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-documentation-english-2011 USE="-source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-metapost-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-pictures-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-langenglish-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-luatex-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-mathextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-pstricks-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-context-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-formatsextra-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-htmlxml-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-science-2011 USE="-doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2011 USE="X -doc -source" 0 kB [ebuild R ] app-text/texlive-2011 USE="X context detex doc dvipdfm extra graphics luatex png pstricks science truetype xetex xml -cjk -dvi2tty -games -humanities -jadetex -music -omega -pdfannotextractor -publishers -tex4ht -xindy" LINGUAS="en en_GB -af -ar -as -bg -bn -bo -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -eo -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -kn -ko -la -lo -lt -lv -ml -mn -mr -nb -nl -nn -no -or -pa -pl -pt -ro -ru -sa_IN -sk -sl -sr -sv -ta -te -th -tk -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 kB Otherwise it is pretty useless, since texdoc will not find anything or you manually enable it for each of those packages. :(
USE=doc in texlive-2011.ebuild installs documentation for that very package. This has nothing to do with the documentation of its RDEPEND packages. Forcing ("inheriting") a USE flag for the deps would mean less choice, not more convenience.
(In reply to comment #1) > USE=doc in texlive-2011.ebuild installs documentation for that very package. > This has nothing to do with the documentation of its RDEPEND packages. Forcing > ("inheriting") a USE flag for the deps would mean less choice, not more > convenience. agreed; the doc useflag on app-text/texlive pulls generic documentation, like latex tutorials; with your LINGUAS settings, it'll pull the tutorials in those languages ;=) if you want specific documentation you should enable the useflag on the specific packagess.
On the LaTeX tutorial in London yesterday, I felt kind of stupid when texdoc didn't show up anything. Usually I browse websites to gather information(which is stupid, the texdoc stuff is much better) and didn't know the 'doc' USE flag on TexLive is not enough to get the actual Latex-core documentation... But it's ok, I can put the USE flag on the packages. This was just some idea I got yesterday :)
