Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/py-anita

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Andreas Gustafsson <gson%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> I think this would be better documented in DESCR or MESSAGE. You don't need
>> a py-anita built with this option to use it with Xen, and users of
>> binary package won't see this "documentation"
>
> I agree.  And there are precedents for this; to pick one near the
> beginning of the alphabetic package list, audio/abcde has a runtime
> dependency on codecs similar to anita's runtime dependecy on VMMs, and
> it does not have an option for each, but rather documents them in
> MESSAGE.

Documentation in MESSAGE is a bug, per the pkgsrc guide.  It's true that
there are historical cases of that remaining.

The anita man page is a perfectly good place to say that you need one of
N things, and to give their names.