On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:21 PM Tim Schumacher <timschumi@xxxxxx> wrote: > Previously, the sed command for generating manpage-base-url.xsl > was printed to the console when being run. > > For the purpose of silencing it, define a $(QUIET) variable which > contains an '@' if verbose mode isn't enabled and which is empty > otherwise. This just silences the command invocation without doing > anything else. One thing that is missing from this commit message is the explanation of _why_ this is desirable. And, why only this command? Without understanding the underlying reason(s), it's hard to judge the value of this change. Thanks.