Re: Spliting packages between pkg and pkg-data

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:48:53AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> Aparently yes. Menu seems to be smart enough for that, see other
>> mails. Bad example, sorry. But manpages certainly aren't.
>
> Well, being able to read the documentation (including the man page) of a
> binary without requiring the binary to be installed is a good thing
> IMHO. Especially for big and complex software that is likely to be
> split to pkg and pkg-data...
>
> Gabor

I prefer to have a 1:1 correlation between binaries and manpages. But
that is just me.

Other things would be cron jobs, inetd entries, init.d scripts. I'm
not sure that putting the init.d script into foo-data is the best
idea.

MfG
        Goswin