proposal to enable to skip installation of perl mod man pages

Sergey Matveychuk sem at ciam.ru
Sun Dec 7 23:50:41 PST 2003


Masafumi NAKANE wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:51:42 +0300,
> Sergey Matveychuk <sem at ciam.ru> wrote:
> 
>>Why don't you use NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES variable instead of NO_PERL_MAN3?
> 
> 
> Because, as I understand it, NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is to say the port
> does not install the man pages, as in port that uses Imake, but no
> install.man target exists.  So, NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES is for porters to
> define the behavior of the port, while the proposed NO_PERL_MAN3 is
> for users to adjust it.

I agree it's works only for imake but there are quite many variables by 
this time so I think we need use some unify variables, do not make a new 
one. (IMHO)
-- 
Sem.


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