Hi !

That would be great, since i would like to QT and other devel tools docs.

Em Terça 05 Julho 2005 15:53, A. S. Budden escreveu:
> On 7/1/05, Mircea Bardac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 01 July 2005 10:45, A. S. Budden wrote:
> > > Suffice to say I was pleased when I realised that makepkg is just a
> > > script and hence easily editable...
> > >
> > > Each to their own I guess.
> >
> > I have just been hit by an idea:
> >
> > What if, instead of deleting, makepkg could create a separate package
> > with those documents, called, let's say "$pkgname-docs" (or
> > "$pkgname-doc").
> >
> > * $pkgname-docs' PKGBUILD could be automatically generated (this might be
> > a bit difficult), so that it could be shared (if the package wouldn't
> > actually be put online). Actually, copying all the fields from the
> > original PKGBUILD might not be very difficult. A particular de-achiving
> > method would hurt the automated process.
> >
> > * $pkgname-docs would depend on $pkgname (well, this might not fit all
> > the cases)
> >
> > * could be a default option for makepkg - makepkg could create a package
> > on his own, without generating a $pkgname-docs PKGBUILD, just by copying
> > (instead of removing) the docs to $startdir/docs (just like in
> > $startdir/pkg) and pack that dir with the package tags in the original
> > PKGBUILD (the package maintainer could decide then wether it will publish
> > $pkgname-docs or not, since it won't break anything)
> >
> > * if it's not a default option in makepkg, it could be a makepkg switch
> > (I don't like this since it would require building AGAIN the package just
> > to get a copy of the docs out of the original install).
> >
> > * all the *-docs packages could be put in a separate repo, let's say
> > [docs]
>
> Just a thought, but you could extend this model to an option in
> pacman.conf that says "if I install package x and package x-docs
> exists in [docs], install that too".  Then users (like me) who would
> like to have the docs can just tweak a simple option in pacman.conf
> and other users can leave it as standard.
>
> Al
>
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