Re: Controlling 3rd-party content in Mallard

[Paul Cutler <paul r cutler gmail com>]

Hi,

On 01/23/2010 01:48 PM, Milo Casagrande wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2010/1/23 Phil Bull <philbull gmail com>:
>> We've been discussing Mallard quite heavily on the Ubuntu Docs list over
>> the past week. One issue that came up (via Kyle Nitzsche, see his
>> original message here [1]) is that people could install their own pages
>> in the same directory as the official Ubuntu documentation.
> 
> Probably I'm not getting the Real problem here, but this looks more
> like a packaging problem to me.
> And I think that it can happen even now, Mallard or not: a bad-done
> third-party package that installs something in the wrong directories
> (it replaces all the xml files of a particular directory).


I've been having the same thought and Milo summed it up better than I
can - in theory you could package anything to modify any packages help
or the GNOME user guide.

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> 
> Ciao.
> 
> (Those are just my personal thoughts.)
> 

Paul