Jyri Virkki wrote: > Prashant Srinivasan wrote: > >>> It seems to deliver much documentation under /var/rubygems/repository/doc/ >>> Is this "/var" content? It changes during runtime and/or users modify it? >>> If it's just documentation why isn't it under /usr? >>> >> In general, the doc directory content can be changed during gem >> administration. The ones that are here are inherent to packages in >> rubygems it self. >> In any case, I would prescribe not to attempt to change the location of >> these directories since they are internal to the software. >> > > Can you expand on that? > > Is it that the docs can't be found if they are in /usr? By ri? > > Delivering tons of static files or docs under /var is certainly unorthodox. > If there's any way to put the docs under /usr instead, that's better. > If it truly is impossible, at least document why in the spec. > >
Jyri, The Rubygems software allows a user to customize locations only to the level of the repository(changes deeper than that will change assumptions that rubygems makes). So gemri(or ri) wont be able to find them. Even if we somehow solved the previous problem, if the user decides to update rubygems independant of our packages(which we should allow/encourage), they would have two inconsistent copies of this documentation. -ps > For example it means that every zone would duplicate all this static > documentation even though there is no need. > > -- Prashant Srinivasan F/OSS Enthusiast Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/prashant GnuPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x82FBDE5A
