On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information
> > for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The
> > doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes
> > massively.
>
> Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have
> horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML
> and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering
> towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring me whole and
> consigning my soul to oblivion.
>
> "USE=doc" is truly the stuff of which nightmares are made.

It isn't all that bad. I have "doc" enabled globally. Yes, some
packages take a while longer - but then, in most cases I want the
documentation anyway. I haven't been haunted by this so far. ;-)

>
> /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with
> depressant side-effects....

Just watch TV for a while.

Uwe

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