Subject: Re: pkg/36764: fonts/fontconfig not installing man pages for fc-*
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Mark E. Perkins <perkinsm@bway.net>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 08/10/2007 14:05:03
The following reply was made to PR pkg/36764; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm@bway.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36764: fonts/fontconfig not installing man pages for fc-*
commands
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:01:48 -0400
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.