[tde-team-gentoo] Re: Conditional build of documentation in the core package

On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 16:31:44 +0100 Slávek Banko via tde-team-gentoo <team-gentoo(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote: A simple question with a complex answer. Chris decided to deviate from standard procedure and place the documentation in separate ebuilds, such as trinity-base/tdegames-doc . Presumably this was easier for him at the time, because the documentation was monolithic. Splitting the documentation may make this stop-gap a little awkward to work with, but I think we can figure something out. Standard Gentoo procedure would be to have each package install only its own documentation, controlled by a "doc" USE flag. We may want to rework things in that direction. The only thing you need to keep in mind is that Gentoo users prefer to avoid having unwanted documentation built automagically. So having a WITH_DOCS flag somewhere that can be turned off to kill all documentation would be helpful. (If there's no way to turn off the documentation, I expect we'll grin and bear it, though. It wouldn't be the first time some package had a feature that should be optional but is impossible to turn off.) E. Liddell