On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 05:36:19PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > > After upgrading to XFree86 4.0.1 I noticed that imake tries to create > > and install HTML versions of all man pages now. > > Yes, I've ran into this too. > > > IMHO the HTML version of a groff man page can be created on the fly, > > if some user prefers this, so it doesn't make much sense to create > > them at build time and ship them with every package. > > I agree, and so did other developers on irc when I ran into this a few > days ago. I hacked my package to not install the html file. Several > tools exist in debian to html format man pages on the fly, even some cgi > scripts that are integrated with debwww and so on. > > > So I suggest > > changing the xlibs-dev package to add > > > > #define BuildHtmlManPages NO > > > > to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/site.def. > > Sounds good to me. Fixed in xfree86 4.0.1-3, dinstalled on Friday. -- G. Branden Robinson | Software engineering: that part of Debian GNU/Linux | computer science which is too difficult branden@debian.org | for the computer scientist. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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