[Slackbuilds-users] fakeroot, po4a

[Andrzej Telszewski]

On 02/11/16 01:03, Christoph Willing wrote:
>
> However, in general, my preference is to include whatever documentation
> is available in the source code we're building from. Any individual user
> may never refer to the documentation but for those expecting a man page
> (or whatever), it should be available if provided by upstream.
>

This is true most of the time. But the holidays end, when you have to 
pull ridiculous amount of dependencies to build the docs.

That's the (only) reason I gave the option not to build the translated 
docs in fakeroot.

> Having a  option in the SlackBuild solves the dilemma of whether to
> include it or not but I think the option should default to yes (not no
> as the suggestion above implies).

I would put it onto maintainers liking. The end user can easily choose, 
what she wants. But if building the docs requires additional 
dependencies, I would prefer to have it set to =NO and mentioned the 
dependencies as optional, rather than as REQUIRES in .info.


@Willy, I'm going to implement it the way B Watson suggested, i.e. if 
po4a is installed, the docs will get translated and passing MANPO=no 
will prevent translation even if po4a is installed. This should not 
affect the current users.

Question: should I increase the BUILD number?

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski