Re: Recommens: *-doc?
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:32:27AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Since I didn't find it in policy I ask here: Do we have a rule that packages
> must not recommend a -doc package? I see that most of the time a -dev
> package only suggest the -doc package and I think that is okay, since some
> will only get the -dev to compile some sources not to do their own
> development. So why bothering with the -doc package. However, there are some
> that use Recommends: which makes dselect ask for the -doc every time.
In some packages, the docs are used by the on-line help system.
Removing the docs breaks that. To name one, that's the reason why xfig
recommends xfig-doc.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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