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

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 01:39:21PM -0400, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> For me it's a bit odd to have a man page for a tool we don't install
>> by default. Is it maybe time to "promote" nmbug-status to the
>> notmuch- namespace and install it by default?
>
> Sounds good to me.  And Gentoo has installed it (if you've set the
> ‘nmbug’ USE flag [1]) since 0.11.1-r1, 2012-02-21 [2].  I'm not sure
> what the new names should be.  nmbug → notmuch-dtag (for distributed
> tag) and nmbug-status → notmuch-report?
>

I'm not sure we need to deal with both tools in lockstep. It's not like
there's an actual dependence of nmbug-status on nmbug. 

>> That would have to be somehow tied to installing the python
>> bindings;
>
> On Gentoo, that happens via REQUIRED_USE [3,4].  An alternative for
> packaging systems without USE-flag-style flexibility would be to spin
> them off into a separate project that depends on Git and notmuch's
> Python bindings.
>

Yes, these things are easy to solve in most packaging systems, but we
want notmuch to be installable from source as well.