From 817f40d0ac766a36795d40d31f9999889aa7de4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Fran=C3=A7ois=20J?= Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:05:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: git: add a comment on why we don't build manpages MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (git)[native-inputs]: add back comment skipped by commit d1cada0450fca54260fd20ab49d0586d147cbeb3 Signed-off-by: François J. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès --- gnu/packages/version-control.scm | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/version-control.scm b/gnu/packages/version-control.scm index 17afc5f41c..1ab97d4dad 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/version-control.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/version-control.scm @@ -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)