On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:37:42AM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote: > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:33, Josef Assad <j...@donassad.com> wrote: > > I was just sitting sifting through extras-testing. While verifying > > optification of apps therein, I saw that some apps were chucking the > > docs/appname/ off of /usr/share/ and some were optifying that bit. > > > > Which is preferable? > > Historically, shipping as small a package as possible was desirable; > so people didn't includre much (if anything) in > /usr/share/docs/<package>. > > Now, if a package uses /opt, it's less of an issue on an N900 - > however for most packages I'd still say much (if any) content in docs > is a waste of space. Certainly, if the same source package is used for > Fremantle and Diablo/Chinook, you don't want to waste space on those > earlier devices.
Agree. I would say that shipping the copyright file is required though, and that's commonly in docs/appname/ . That's mainly what I've been looking at that folder for in extras-testing. > HTH, It does. Thank you. :) > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ -- import sig _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
