Re: new approach: Documentation Policy
Brian White writes:
> > Can't deity be implemented to match something like
> >
> > /usr/doc/*/html
> >
> > too? I wouldn't like to "centralize" documentation again. (We already had
> > /usr/doc/copyright and /usr/doc/examples, but they have been removed.)
>
> Probably, yes. The original design only called for prefixes because it
> also allowed replacements -- changing the prefix so someone could do
> something like move all man pages from /usr/man to /usr/share/man.
>
> Such replacements is much more difficult to implement when you can have
> wildcards anywhere in the path.
What about using a sed-like mechanism (I mean, in s/.../.../
commands) allowing rules as "/usr/doc/examples/\1 ->
/usr/doc/\(.*\)/examples".
BTW allowing such rules to be set up at any time after package
installation would provide a mechanism to "locally fix" packages using
an old version of the policy, without systematically re-downloading
them (in case just the layout has changed).
--
Yann Dirson <dirson@univ-mlv.fr>
http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson
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