svn commit: r425213 - head/math/R

[Joseph Mingrone]

John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> writes:

> On 11/3/2016 08:55, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>> Author: jrm
>> Date: Thu Nov  3 13:55:58 2016
>> New Revision: 425213
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/425213

>> Log:
>>   math/R: Revert documentation changes and bump PORTREVISION

>>   In an attempt to simplify the handling of documentation for users, changes
>>   were made in the last commit. When the documentation knob was off, (almost)
>>   no HTML, PDF, etc. files or their sources were installed, and when the knob
>>   was on, all these files were installed. Because some of these documentation
>>   files depended on some very large TeX ports, despite the usual convention,
>>   the knob was turned off by default. Unfortunately, this caused problems for
>>   a few R-dependent ports, because they copy documentation files from math/R
>>   when they are installed.


> Is there any way you can fix the dependent ports either not copy the
> documentation or optionally install it independently?

I'm not certain yet, but I think R itself would have to be patched and the
change would have a wide impact.  For example, it would impact how users install
R packages directly.

> There is a trend to move e.g. DOXYGEN to it's own option, separate from docs, so
> what you did previously was welcome.

> I'd vote for fixing those dependent ports and bringing the previous version
> back.

> Thanks,
> John

I've made a change in 425338 that I think is the lesser of all evils.

I have followed your and mat's suggestion and re-introduced a knob specifically
for the TeX-dependent documentation and left it off by default.

I have not included a knob to remove core documentation files (in the
post-install target) that upstream installs non-optionally.

Thanks for your feedback,

Joseph
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