Re: use of DOCS in port options

On Thu, Aug 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM void <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> OK, thanks.
>
> I guess there's not an official way of processing the ports tree to
> see what's where? There's a couple of issues, might be near-edge cases,
> in that on a for example embedded system one might not want doxygen
> or PDFs made. I install docs-everything in a desktop context,
> manpages only elsewhere.

Yes, I saw such decoupling as well. For instance, if docs generation
requires Doxygen,
which is a pretty heavy build dep, the port does something like this:

OPTIONS_DEFINE= DOCS DOXYGEN

DOXYGEN_IMPLIES= DOCS
DOXYGEN_BUILD_DEPENDS= doxygen:devel/doxygen
DOXYGEN_CMAKE_ON= BUILD_DOCS

This allows for users to disable the DOXYGEN option by default, but
enable DOCS and MANPAGES,
and then hope for a better port building experience.

Another example of the same idea is lang/ghc with DOCS and PDFDOCS.