On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:03PM -0500, Alexander Shinn wrote:
> Any example that's a binary executable would be a programming example,
> which _should_ be compiled by the person going through the examples
> anyway, since they're trying to learn. If the binary is just a tool
> for running/viewing the examples, then it's probably of general use to
> the package, and should be included with the main package.
>
> Checking my system (with a sampling of ~1000 packages) I get
>
>
> (for dir in /usr/doc/*/examples; do find $dir -type f -perm -001; done) |\
> xargs file | grep executable | grep -v text
[...]
>
> So slang has some programming examples, and included the compiled
> versions of those examples, but there's no reason they couldn't just be
> removed.
slang1-examples or similar maybe?
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