On tor, 2010-03-04 at 17:53 +0000, Lou Picciano wrote:
> While I'd agree a 'make all' should, uh... make _all_, and that make
> building based on lots of guessing is counterintuitive, an option to
> configure like:
>
> ./configure --no-docs or ./configure --with-htmldocs-only
>
> - with some of the obvious variants - might be very useful.
> Especially if docs are available elsewhere, and for those of us who
> may not have the inclination to retain/host all docs for all packages
> we build, or may prefer a specific format anyway, and who are really
> looking for the core software in any case...
But that would be a negative regression for end users, who we want to
have the docs available by default, so they can read them.