Ah, finally I can post in this thread with peace of mind! Well said, Bob.
Phil
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Hey gang;
O.K.....this discussion has gone on long enough IMnsHO.
And it was redundant BEFORE it got started last week or so.
How so you may choose to ask ?
It has already been discussed at least two times in the past couple of
years or so. And NOTHING has changed accept the names of the folks
whining.
Bottom line: Judd does not like docs being part of a package UNLESS they
are help files required by a gui-based app., man pages, or not available
anywhere else (including the web).
This is also VERY old news for arch, going back to its' inception. It
remains a hard and fast declaration of how this distro will work.
Have a nice day. And very best regards;
Bob Finch
A) Regarding documentation:
Hey.. why not try this:
1) alter makepkg to create a second <pkgname>-docs package if there are
any docs [includes /usr/share/doc and info pages (i badly need these for
a lot of programs when offline)]
2) create a separate "docs" repository which has just these document
packages (these packages have no dependencies on anything, so no
hastle maintaining them)
3) The transition to these stuff can go on slowly.. meaning start off
now, so that all future packages will have docs, dont worry about
older packages until a rebuild is necessary for some other purpose.
Thus we can endup with an elegant solution pleasing ppl who want
documentation(*shouts me me me!*) and ppl who dont care about docs.
(disclaimer: i dunno if anyone has suggested this.. but i just got this
as a brainwave this morning :D )
B) Regarding pacman normal features, i request some option to allow
"automatic downgrading" as i had explained in one of my previous
threads.
Best Regards to the arch team.
--
Vinay S Shastry
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