Boost documentation

vpoinot · 2009-04-09 16:51:47

I have installed Boost, but cannot find the associated documentation. Nothing in /usr/share/doc or anywhere else, and it seems there is no dedicated package.
Is that an omission ?

kakTuZ · 2009-04-09 17:05:12

See Package Guidelines in the install guide -> makepkg Duties -> 6. Removes /usr/doc, /usr/info, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info from the package
It's not a bug, it's a feature.

You can obtain the docs by rebuilding the package with the 'docs' option enabled in you makepkg.conf.

Last edited by kakTuZ (2009-04-09 17:05:37)

florianbw · 2010-07-14 14:29:54

I too was looking for the boost documentation in the standard install, and found this answer.

Wouldn't it be a nice feature in future versions of pacman/PKGBUILDS to have the possibility to define flags with pacman, similarly to the make flags in Gentoo? A doc flag would be great!

Anonymo · 2010-07-14 19:35:27

florianbw wrote:

I too was looking for the boost documentation in the standard install, and found this answer.
Wouldn't it be a nice feature in future versions of pacman/PKGBUILDS to have the possibility to define flags with pacman, similarly to the make flags in Gentoo? A doc flag would be great!

what?

karol · 2010-07-14 20:11:17

@ florianbw
You've registered six months ago, maybe it's time to read some wiki articles and man pages, huh?

> You can obtain the docs by rebuilding the package with the 'docs' option enabled in you makepkg.conf.
Here you have your flags,

Posting in a rather old thread and making a fool of yourself - way to go.

florianbw · 2010-07-19 11:32:44

Karol, I do not understand how I make a fool of myself asking a question. I try to explain better what I mean.

I understand the post by kakTuZ, but downloading the boost related PKGBUILD and files and running makepkg on them is not a convenient way. If there is a simpler way, I did not find out reading the wiki, In Gentoo, you can specify use flags globally and as environment variables:

e.g.
USE="-java" emerge seamonkey

Synonymous for pacman could be:
OPTIONS="docs" pacman -S boost

Maybe it is not possible/practicable when having binary packages, but in my opinion worth a thought.

wonder · 2010-07-19 11:49:01

@florianbw maybe in gentoo world it would work. but forgot gentoo and start to learn the arch way.

arch way:

if docs are not provided then is a bug or a feature request. but i did the last boost update and split it and therefor is a bug since i didn't noticed that docs are missing.

therefor http://bugs.archlinux.org and i'll try to provide a boost-docs or directly in boost package.

karol · 2010-07-19 11:51:14

@ florianbw
Arch has a way or keeping / getting rid of docs. Of course, to use this feature you have to compile the package.

Allan · 2010-07-19 12:11:30

There is so much wrong information in this thread.... It all stems from the thread being first posted over a year ago and is the whole reason for this rule: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … Bumping.27

So before I close this:
1) we used to remove docs from packages back when this started
2) we changed to including docs by default
3) boost requires extra install steps to install docs or else it would have docs now.

As wonder pointed out, file a feature request and it will get fixed.

Closing.

Arch Linux

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