On 07/06/16 23:50, NP-Hardass wrote: > From what I've seen, HACKING is a fairly common doc in FOSS projects. > It doesn't seem to have been included in the default DOCS for > einstalldocs in EAPI6. While going through the MATE packages, I noticed > that we have quite a few packages that include HACKING in DOCS, so I > cannot delete the DOCS array and take advantage of the automagic doc > detection feature of einstalldocs. > > Does anyone know why we omitted this file from the default DOCS? A > quick grep of the main repo shows ~370 ebuilds with HACKING listed. Is > this file no longer considered worthy of being included by default in > our installed docs? If so, looking for advice on whether it is worth > keeping or dropping that file from my packages? > I made the suggestion a while back in IRC that it would be nice if there was a way to append to the DOCS array in an ebuild, rather than have to override it, and remember the standard list every time, or just lose the extra file(s). Unfortunately I was laughed out of the channel. So, whilst it would probably be something for another EAPI change .. what do readers think of the idea of an EXTRA_DOCS variable or similar method for doing this, for exactly this reason/purpose??
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