GNU bug report logs - #37850
Glib documentation is missing

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 37850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alexandros Theodotou <alex <at> zrythm.org>
To: 37850 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Glib documentation is missing
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 03:10:47 +0100

I missed this part.

> glib documentation must be built with gtk-doc which in turn depends on 
> glib,
> so we need to define glib-minimal which does not depend on gtk-doc.

In this case the way I have seen other distros do it is by having a 
*-bootstrap package (same as the *-minimal that you mention), which 
doesn't sound like a bad approach.

> What about 'hiding' the normal glib package

Maybe the *-bootstrap package can be hidden. Then the normal glib 
package can have its "doc" back?
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