On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:35:12AM +0300, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2008 00:23, Tomasz Wittner wrote:
> > 2. Why %doc macro puts documentation files
> > in /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version} directory instead
> > of /usr/share/doc/%{name} ?
> > What we gain by adding -%{version} to directory name? (my answer: nothing
> > but unnecessary troubles).Many programs expects that their documentation is
> > located
> > in /usr/share/doc/%{name} - privoxy, fluid from fltk-devel are good
> > examples.
>
> dunno. some redhat convention that we follow as we use rpm? :)
Ability to install new version of package (usually library) without
removing old one.
> same goes to %{_examplesdir} too, if we remove version, we should do there
> too.
Right, consistency here.
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Jakub Bogusz http://qboosh.pl/
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