On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:03PM -0500, Alexander Shinn wrote: > Any example that's a binary executable would be a programming example, > which _should_ be compiled by the person going through the examples > anyway, since they're trying to learn. If the binary is just a tool > for running/viewing the examples, then it's probably of general use to > the package, and should be included with the main package. > > Checking my system (with a sampling of ~1000 packages) I get > > > (for dir in /usr/doc/*/examples; do find $dir -type f -perm -001; done) |\ > xargs file | grep executable | grep -v text [...] > > So slang has some programming examples, and included the compiled > versions of those examples, but there's no reason they couldn't just be > removed. slang1-examples or similar maybe? -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the solution to Debian's problem .. and since the only real way to create more relatives of developers is to have children, we need more sex! It's a long term investment ... it's the work itself that is satisfying! -- Craig Brozefsky
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