[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Packaging WM themes - question



> > (4) Should they be packaged at all? Does packaging these themes actually
> > provide any more functionality than downloading and unpacking a tar.gz
> > (or whatever the format is) file in the appriate location?

Ben Burton <benb@acm.org> wrote:

> Just out of interest, how does this differ from reference manuals?  I guess 
> the advantage of packaging them is that (i) the user can simply apt-get them 
> as with the rest of their software; (ii) the user doesn't need to know how to 
> manually install themes(*); they just magically show up in the theme manager.

Well, if the reference manual is inside the upstream source bundle, then 
it would be appropriate to place it in its own package (or preferably 
inside the program's package if it is small).  It is a bit of a pain to 
download the entire source just to get the reference manual.

- Brian




Reply to: