On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:41:48 +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote: > well. imho this is wrong.
This is how it's done for many packages. > documentation that application uses should be still bundled with package main > files, as if i install package --exclude docs, i get partial package. Yes. That's what exclude docs mean. > as this is against for point one from devel-hints-en.txt: Could you emphase where exactly? > Every package should, whenever possible, contain documentation files. It does. > Documentation files should be marked with %doc, which makes it possible That's right. > to refrain from installing them by passing the --exclude-docs rpm > option, if that's what the user desires. You shouldn't: Yeah. > - mark files crucial to the program's functionality as %doc It's not crucial to use lstat. > and perhaps consider creating -doc subpackage, for folks having --exclude > docs > and still get those documentation files used by app? Feel free. But package these files only once, as it's 600KB. -- GoTaR <priv0.onet.pl->gotar> http://vfmg.sourceforge.net/ http://tccs.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
