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 17:15:34 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 02:05:03PM +0000, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
 >  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).
 
 It would still be inacceptable as this package is a core dependency of
 modular Xorg.
 
 >  Another alternative might be to handle docbook-to-man via options in the
 >  packages that need it.  Just a thought.
 
 I think a separte -man page is the better idea. See libtool-info and
 other precendenes.
 
 Joerg