svn commit: r367002 - head/devel/cmake

[Adam Weinberger]

On 2 Sep, 2014, at 11:40, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:

> On 9/2/2014 17:37, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> On 2 Sep, 2014, at 11:33, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/2/2014 17:27, Andrej Zverev wrote:
>>>> +1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org
>>>> <mailto:adamw at adamw.org>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   On 2 Sep, 2014, at 9:39, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco at FreeBSD.org>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Author: rakuco
>>>>> Date: Tue Sep  2 13:39:32 2014
>>>>> New Revision: 367002
>>>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/367002
>>>>> QAT: https://qat.redports.org/buildarchive/r367002/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>> head/devel/cmake/Makefile
>>>>> 
>>>>> Modified: head/devel/cmake/Makefile
>>>>> 
>>>>   ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- head/devel/cmake/Makefile Tue Sep  2 13:25:18 2014       
>>>>   (r367001)
>>>>> +++ head/devel/cmake/Makefile Tue Sep  2 13:39:32 2014       
>>>>   (r367002)
>>>>> @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
>>>>> # $FreeBSD$
>>>>> +BUILD_DEPENDS=       sphinx-build:${PORTSDIR}/textproc/py-sphinx
>>>> 
>>>>   I’m sorry, but that is an absolutely ludicrous number of
>>>>   dependencies. Can you please make an OPTION to disable this? I don’t
>>>>   want to install a dozen dependencies just to get some manpages I’ll
>>>>   never read.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I understand that installing man pages is mandatory, that it should not
>>> be OPTION controlled.  A lot of ports use sphinx so I don't know what
>>> the big deal about sphinx in particular is, but lets say it's something
>>> else far worse.   man pages could be pregenerated and installed from
>>> $FILEDIR right?  So there are alternatives, but unless I'm wrong about
>>> the policy using OPTIONS is not one of them (but I'm wrong a lot, so
>>> let's see what the answer is).
>> 
>> How do you mean mandatory?
>> 
>> OPTIONS_DEFINE+=	MANPAGES
>> OPTIONS_DEFAULT+=	MANPAGES
>> MANPAGES_CONFIGURE_ON=	--sphinx-man
>> 
> 
> By mandatory, I mean that a port that does that is violating policy.
> Documentation is optional (DOCS) but manpages are not.  That's what I've
> understood.  I've see ports that tried the above and I've removed code
> of that equivalent.
> 
> John

If it’s on by default I don’t see the problem. Who are we to decide that nobody should ever be allowed to build a port without manpages?

# Adam


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