From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:36:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet
Message-ID: <20070316153639.GH31722@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <7C0AC446-57CA-480B-A14E-1E861E2FCBA7@silverinsanity.com>

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:01:47AM -0400, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> I remember running into huge issues with docbook and xmlto under  
> either Fink or MacPorts because it was still looking in /etc/xml/ 
> catalog.  IIRC, the --nonet flag disables network access but not  
> having it does not mean that you will access the network.  What  
> happens is that on machines with the xsl files installed, it will use  
> the local copy either way (via /etc/xml/catalog), but if you don't it  
> will go to the actual URL (which will die with --nonet).

Oh, OK, thanks for pointing that out.  So I agree then that --nonet
doesn't make sense.

> I  personally don't see a reason to use --nonet for everyone.  If a
> particular user doesn't want xsltproc hitting the 'net then they can
> use that option, but there's no reason to break the build for people
> who don't care.  Providing a user-configurable variable to pass
> options to xsltproc is probably a good idea anyway. (XSLTFLAGS,
> maybe?)

Eh, it doesn't sound like there's a real need for it for --nonet.  Is
there some other reason to do that?

--b.