Re: when move /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc ?
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 02:03:07PM +0000, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> The problem with this change is, that there is no generic way to find
> the documentation for the packages, if it is distributed between
> /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc. This is no problem with man and info,
...
> Maybe by installing the documentation under /usr/share/doc/<package>
> and creating a symlink /usr/doc/<package> pointing to this location.
> Then all documentation will be available as /usr/doc/<package> in the
> transition phase and in the far future (when every package is re-build
> using /usr/share/doc), we can remove /usr/doc and switch over to
> /usr/share/doc.
Maybe we should make /usr/doc to symlink to /usr/share/doc in a
future release, so anything that tries to get installed in /usr/doc will
be really installed under /usr/share/doc. Eventually we can wipe the
/usr/doc->/usr/share/doc link... ?
--macan
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