Re: pkg/36764: fonts/fontconfig not installing man pages for fc-* commands

["Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm%bway.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36764; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm%bway.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > 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.