Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh schrieb am 30.03.2009 18:43:
>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:33:48 +0200
>> Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> else
>>> for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do
>>> if [ -e ${x} ]; then
>> Is -e really better than -s?
>>
>
> I think -s should be used here. I have seen projects out there which
> don't use the mandatory autotools files (INSTALL, NEWS, README, AUTHORS,
> ChangeLog, COPYING) at all or use other files than these. So they just
> place an empty file there to make automake happy instead of using the
> --foreign option. Besides that it makes no sense to install empty
> documentation files at all.
>
portage don't install empty files (they are ignored) so it would be
painless.
Mounir
