Bug 1380291 - tcl manpages should ideally be in a separate package
Summary: tcl manpages should ideally be in a separate package
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tcl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-29 08:29 UTC by Tor Lillqvist
Modified: 2016-09-29 10:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: tcl-8.6.6-2.fc26
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2016-09-29 10:18:10 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description Tor Lillqvist 2016-09-29 08:29:34 UTC
Description of problem:

It's slightly annoying that the tcl manpages are so numerous and have so generic title lines that they make it much harder to find what you are looking for with 'man -k'. Whatever you look for, you typically have to skip dozens of tcl manpages when browsing the output. I assume very few people are actually writing software in Tcl/Tk these days, and need those manpages.

Comment 1 Tor Lillqvist 2016-09-29 08:58:38 UTC
OK, my friendly neighbour Fedora expert tells me to do:

dnf reinstall tcl --setopt='tsflags=nodocs'

so I'll close this bug myself then;) I guess another question is why tcl got installed in the first place, no idea if that is the default for development systems, or might have been my own fault after installing something obscure I don't use anyway, or whatever...

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2016-09-29 09:26:07 UTC
(In reply to Tor Lillqvist from comment #1)
> OK, my friendly neighbour Fedora expert tells me to do:
> 
> dnf reinstall tcl --setopt='tsflags=nodocs'
> 
> so I'll close this bug myself then;) I guess another question is why tcl got
> installed in the first place, no idea if that is the default for development
> systems, or might have been my own fault after installing something obscure
> I don't use anyway, or whatever...

Thanks for the report, the above is dirty workaround. I think it makes sense to have the docs in separate package, thus reopening but against rawhide.


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