Re: [pacman-dev] man2html

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 08:13:12PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:

On 2/22/07, Jürgen Hötzel wrote:

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Hi,

i think man2html code could be removed to make build/configure scripts cleaner. Any objections?

Perhaps it should be made into a target instead? That way it doesn't need to be in configure, but is still available. It should be moved to the base Makefile.am as a target called "make man2html" (or maybe just keep it in the doc directory exclusively). I'm sure it can be cleaned up a decent amount, especially if one uses the $(man_MANS) variable that is already there to write a more correct target.

The reason for removing is the same as with the auto-generated swig bindings. Both don't need the source package and can be generated from an installed pacman binary package. Currently the generated html aren't included by an automake conditional in as EXTRA_DIST. So I'm sure nobody will miss it. BTW: I think the only use for them is: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html ;-) Jürgen