Re: [PATCH] user-manual: ensure generated manual references stylesheet

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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.
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