Re: Which directory to use for packagename-doc documentation files?
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:24:22PM -0500, Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> was heard to say:
> I think my personal favorite would be that package foo contain the
> symlink /usr/share/doc/foo/docs->../../foo-doc. I can see that others
> might not like it though. If foo-doc isn't installed, the broken link is
> ugly, but it's also a big hint that 'apt-get install foo-doc' might be
> useful.
Why not symlink /usr/share/doc/foo-doc to /usr/share/doc/foo? That would
get the same effect without the broken link.. (assuming foo-doc ships the
documentation in /usr/share/doc/foo)
Daniel
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