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 > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch -- Douglas Soares de Andrade dsa at unilestemg.br UnilesteMG - www.unilestemg.br ICQ, MSN = 76277921, douglas at tuxfamily.org _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
