On Thu, May 12, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> 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).

Yes, i expected this answer, and it is ok. But we had to speak about it.


   (mk)

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