On Wed, May 11, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:
>
> > 1. Classification of documentation
> > ----------------------------------
> > We will make a distinction between mandatory and auxilliary
> > documentation.
> > Mandatory documentation is always installed while the installation of
> > auxilliary documentation can be controlled using the package manager
> > application.
> > For RPM there are the options --includedocs and --excludedocs and the
>
> One problem that i see with this is, that the whole package needs to be
> reinstalled, when someone "forgot" the documentation.
> There is also the %package directive. The question is just, whether
> such effords pay back.
We should avoid %package as it (1) inherently creates ugly redundancies
in the .spec file and (2) totally breaks the "openpkg build", "openpkg
index" and similar tools (which strongly assume that a single .src.rpm
results in a single .<binary>.rpm and not multiple .<binary>.rpms).
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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