Re: Deleting uncompressed Info/Doc files at upgrades
On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob Browning
<rlb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
> these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll
> have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip on them then and
> there's no problem.
It means that the sysadmin has to create /usr/local/doc, and, foreach package,
create a subdirectory in it and uncompress the files in that subdirectory?
Then, after each upgrade he has to do the same? After each removal, she has to
remember to delete the subdirectory?
To me, this completely defeats the purpose of having packages. I believe I'm
reading the messages of Slackware fans explaining that building/installing
everything by hand is not a such fuss.
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