Re: [PATCH 3/5] nmbug-status: Add an nmbug-status(5) man page

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>\r
+Cc: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] nmbug-status: Add an nmbug-status(5) man page\r
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+"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:\r
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+> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:39:21PM -0400, David Bremner wrote:\r
+>\r
+>> For me it's a bit odd to have a man page for a tool we don't install\r
+>> by default. Is it maybe time to "promote" nmbug-status to the\r
+>> notmuch- namespace and install it by default?\r
+>\r
+> Sounds good to me.  And Gentoo has installed it (if you've set the\r
+> =E2=80=98nmbug=E2=80=99 USE flag [1]) since 0.11.1-r1, 2012-02-21 [2].  I=\r
+'m not sure\r
+> what the new names should be.  nmbug =E2=86=92 notmuch-dtag (for distribu=\r
+ted\r
+> tag) and nmbug-status =E2=86=92 notmuch-report?\r
+>\r
+\r
+I'm not sure we need to deal with both tools in lockstep. It's not like\r
+there's an actual dependence of nmbug-status on nmbug.=20\r
+\r
+>> That would have to be somehow tied to installing the python\r
+>> bindings;\r
+>\r
+> On Gentoo, that happens via REQUIRED_USE [3,4].  An alternative for\r
+> packaging systems without USE-flag-style flexibility would be to spin\r
+> them off into a separate project that depends on Git and notmuch's\r
+> Python bindings.\r
+>\r
+\r
+Yes, these things are easy to solve in most packaging systems, but we\r
+want notmuch to be installable from source as well.=20\r