Re: docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread John Calcote
On 7/10/2009 5:42 PM, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 20:52, John Calcote wrote: 2) Is there any movement within the Automake community to move toward the LSB directory structure as the default? Excuse me, but why automake should prefer one of the many OS and, there

Re: docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread Andrew W. Nosenko
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 20:52, John Calcote wrote: > 2) Is there any movement within the Automake community to move toward the > LSB directory structure as the default? Excuse me, but why automake should prefer one of the many OS and, therefore, one of the many FS layouts over other (except automa

Re: docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread John Calcote
Hi Russ, On 7/10/2009 12:32 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: While messing around building RPM files recently, I happened to notice that most Linux distros like to put documentation files into ${datarootdir}/doc/*packages*/${PACKAGE}. Debian doesn't. My mistake here - sometimes I leap befor

Re: docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi John, in addition to what Russ wrote: * John Calcote wrote on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 07:52:39PM CEST: > > 1) Why the controversy? I wasn't aware of any distro using *packages*. Surely Debian, its derivatives like Ubuntu, and RHEL 4 don't use it. > 2) Is there any movement within the Automake

Re: docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
John Calcote writes: > Just a quick question for those who might know. > > I understand that Automake generates ${docdir} as > ${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}, as per the Automake manual, section 2.2.3. > > While messing around building RPM files recently, I happened to notice > that most Linux dis

docdir with "packages" directory

2009-07-10 Thread John Calcote
Hi all, Just a quick question for those who might know. I understand that Automake generates ${docdir} as ${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}, as per the Automake manual, section 2.2.3. While messing around building RPM files recently, I happened to notice that most Linux distros like to put docum