I noticed that app-emulation/lxc does not install manpages unless the "doc" use-flag is provided, and that no other documentation installation depends on said useflag. Although I can't find any official word on the matter I think this behavior does not comport with traditionally accepted best-practice for ebuilds, so the "doc" flag should become a "man" flag. See github PR #6034
I don't know about that. From what I see, "man" is a seldom used locally-defined flag. In fact, I'm thinking there shouldn't be a use flag at all for manpages. From what I see from other packages, there seldom is an option to *not* build manpages and I don't really see the point in not building them.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6b6afa0fb497cdb5d29f1ad16ef531f643c651a8 commit 6b6afa0fb497cdb5d29f1ad16ef531f643c651a8 Author: Virgil Dupras <hsoft@hardcoded.net> AuthorDate: 2017-12-15 20:58:38 +0000 Commit: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-12-15 22:58:16 +0000 app-emulation/lxc: always build man pages Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635254 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/6561 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.13, Repoman-2.3.3 Signed-off-by: Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> app-emulation/lxc/lxc-2.0.9.ebuild | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
