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Re: Policy for /usr/doc/<pkg-name>-doc



On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 11:33:39AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> As a user I prefer that /usr/doc/<pkgname>-doc be a link to
> /usr/doc/<pkgname>, then the extra docs fall under somthing like this

the problem with that approch is you need to install <pkgname> before
<pkgname>-doc. <pkgname>-doc should depends on <pkgname> to avoid
a broken symlink. So you can't only install <pkgname>-doc to read
the documentation without <pkgname>. Sometimes it's nice to have
only the documentation.
-- 
 David Rocher, rocher@mail.dotcom.fr.


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