Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 21:41:50 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "tcltk@freebsd.org" <tcltk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: No man pages by default Message-ID: <6B7FF9D6-E4F4-4FFD-BF87-6CC5A738A95C@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20190219085859.tqltpq42i3tsppjl@ptrcrt.ch> References: <B8271A47-249D-4712-B9A5-0DCBE6D10909@gsoft.com.au> <E16F3452-079B-49E7-B395-23585F32667B@gsoft.com.au> <20190219085859.tqltpq42i3tsppjl@ptrcrt.ch>
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> On 19 Feb 2019, at 19:28, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Feb 19 2019, 06:47 UTC, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >> Oops a co-worker reminded me I asked this in the past :) >> >> A suggestion then was to use MAN_SUFFIX to avoid collisions with multiple Tcl versions being installed simultaneously so I'll see about creating patches to do that. > > Hi Daniel, > > the Tcl/Tk ports already use MAN_SUFFIX to avoid conflicts when installing multiple versions. Moreover, man pages don't imply any additional dependencies and the additional disk space needed is in my opinion reasonable (lang/tcl86 is 7.66MiB without vs. 8.74MiB with manpages on my system). > > Given these reasons, I have changed the default options of Tcl/Tk 85, 86 and 87 so that man pages are installed by default. Well, that was easy, thanks :) > Additionally, I have also enabled the installation of TZ data by default. OK, to be honest I have no idea what that does - I always assumed it just used the base TZ data which was up to date anyway so it was not a particularly valuable option. > The relevant commit is r493355. Thanks again! > Thanks, > >> >>> On 19 Feb 2019, at 17:02, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for a lot of work things (running radar systems) and one annoying bug bear is the lack of man pages by default. >>> >>> The commit to disable them (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=229081) doesn't say why so I was wondering if anyone knew, and if there would be any objections to changing the default? >>> >>> We would very much like to transition to using FreeBSD default packages wherever possible and this would be very helpful. >>> >>> I did have a look in bugzilla but I couldn't find anything (apart from a few name conflicts which were fixed with some man page renames). >>> >>> Any information / feedback much appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer >>> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au >>> "The nice thing about standards is that there >>> are so many of them to choose from." >>> -- Andrew Tanenbaum >>> > > -- > Pietro Cerutti -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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