No man pages by default

[Pietro Cerutti]

On Feb 19 2019, 06:47 UTC, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at 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.

Additionally, I have also enabled the installation of TZ data by 
default.

The relevant commit is r493355.

Thanks,

>
>> On 19 Feb 2019, at 17:02, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at 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
>>

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Pietro Cerutti