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authorFrançois J <francois-oss@avalenn.eu>2021-04-23 09:05:46 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-05-03 23:10:01 +0200
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gnu: git: add a comment on why we don't build manpages
* gnu/packages/version-control.scm (git)[native-inputs]: add back comment skipped by commit d1cada0450fca54260fd20ab49d0586d147cbeb3 Signed-off-by: François J. <francois-oss@avalenn.eu> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ as well as the classic centralized workflow.")
("bash" ,bash-minimal)
("bash-for-tests" ,bash)
("gettext" ,gettext-minimal)
+ ;; To build the man pages from the git sources, we would need a dependency
+ ;; on a full XML tool chain, and building it actually takes ages. So we
+ ;; use this lazy approach and use released tarball.
("git-manpages"
,(origin
(method url-fetch)