On 2007/08/10 09:45, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/36764; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/36764: fonts/fontconfig not installing man pages for fc-*
> 	commands
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:43:12 +0200
> 
>  On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:50:01PM +0000, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>  > >How-To-Repeat:
>  > 
>  > install fonts/fontconfig
>  > 
>  > man fc-cache
>  > 
>  > read failure message (No manual entry for fc-cache)
>  
>  I don't think forcing in a docbook-to-man dependency is acceptable.
>  So I would just close this ticket and let you take this as complain
>  upstream. E.g. so that they actually ship prebuilt man pages.

I thought there were other packages with such a dependency, as I have several
docbook packages that were installed as dependencies.  Now that I look closer,
it looks as if they were installed when I was building doc/guide, so maybe
that's the full story.

OTOH, if there are (more than a few) packages that need docbook to generate
useful documentation, then forcing the dependency is less distasteful, IMO
(but I do not have other examples at the moment).

Another alternative might be to handle docbook-to-man via options in the
packages that need it.  Just a thought.