Re: new approach: Documentation Policy
> > > 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".
It's possible, but probably not worth it. It has to be simple enough
for anyone to use and regexp is not for beginners.
> 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).
That's possible, but can also be accomplished with "rm <whatever>" or
"mv <whatever>" in almost all cases.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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