Re: API docs locations



On 2 Sep 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> > However, under the perspective of packagers,
> > /usr/share/doc/packagename-version/html can be a very bad choice, since
> > %doc will install various docs there. I'm not sure about Redhat and Debian,
> > but for Mandrake docs, %doc directory will be 'rm -rf'ed before placing
> > any docs there, thus losing all API docs.
>
> Red Hat probably does this too, but it seems pretty dumb if we can't
> put real docs in /usr/share/doc. We could ideally do some RPM fixage
> or come up with a hack for this. I'll ask the RPM experts.
>
> Just occurred to me that including the version in the directory name
> might make cross references hard to set up. (e.g. from GTK docs to
> GLib docs)

How about something like /usr/share/doc/gnome/...... which still conforms
FHS and won't be removed during packaging?

Abel


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