No man pages by default

[Daniel O'Connor]

> On 19 Feb 2019, at 19:28, Pietro Cerutti <gahr at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Feb 19 2019, 06:47 UTC, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>> Oops a co-worker reminded me I asked this in the past :)
>> 
>> A suggestion then was to use MAN_SUFFIX to avoid collisions with multiple Tcl versions being installed simultaneously so I'll see about creating patches to do that.
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> the Tcl/Tk ports already use MAN_SUFFIX to avoid conflicts when installing multiple versions. Moreover, man pages don't imply any additional dependencies and the additional disk space needed is in my opinion reasonable (lang/tcl86 is 7.66MiB without vs. 8.74MiB with manpages on my system).
> 
> Given these reasons, I have changed the default options of Tcl/Tk 85, 86 and 87 so that man pages are installed by default.

Well, that was easy, thanks :)

> Additionally, I have also enabled the installation of TZ data by default.

OK, to be honest I have no idea what that does - I always assumed it just used the base TZ data which was up to date anyway so it was not a particularly valuable option.

> The relevant commit is r493355.

Thanks again!

> Thanks,
> 
>> 
>>> On 19 Feb 2019, at 17:02, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for a lot of work things (running radar systems) and one annoying bug bear is the lack of man pages by default.
>>> 
>>> The commit to disable them (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=229081) doesn't say why so I was wondering if anyone knew, and if there would be any objections to changing the default?
>>> 
>>> We would very much like to transition to using FreeBSD default packages wherever possible and this would be very helpful.
>>> 
>>> I did have a look in bugzilla but I couldn't find anything (apart from a few name conflicts which were fixed with some man page renames).
>>> 
>>> Any information / feedback much appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
>>> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
>>> "The nice thing about standards is that there
>>> are so many of them to choose from."
>>> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
>>> 
> 
> -- 
> Pietro Cerutti

--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum