svn commit: r367002 - head/devel/cmake

[Adam Weinberger]

On 2 Sep, 2014, at 11:47, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:

> On 9/2/2014 17:42, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> On 2 Sep, 2014, at 11:40, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st>
>>>>> 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?
>> 
> 
> If it's the policy, it's the policy.

That’s ridiculous. Where’s that policy? There’s MANPAGES_DESC in bsd.options.desc.mk. I’m not the first person to think up disabling manpages.

80 ports have a MANPAGES option. Should I let all 80 of those maintainers know that you decided they can’t have that option anymore?

> However, I sorta kinda think a <bsd.port.mk> option to not package man
> pages for all ports may be coming for embedded usage.  That won't solve
> this dependency that you are trying to fix, but it will solve the "i
> don't need manpages for any port" issue.
> 
> Sphinx is not like tex though.  It's really not a big deal practically
> speaking.

Bringing in a dozen dependencies is EXACTLY what options is designed for.

# Adam


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