On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:24:22PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> 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 put the symlink in foo-doc instead of foo? That way, if you've
just got foo installed, you don't see any docs and you think "Hmmm,
wonder if there's a foo-doc package then?", and if you've got the docs
installed, you can just look in /usr/share/doc/foo/docs and find it.
Or since "docs" is a bit redundant, maybe it'd be better to say that "large"
HTML, .ps.gz, .pdf, etc docs should be the only things split into separate
packages (-doc, -doc-html, whatever), and to have /usr/share/doc/foo/html
as the symlink instead.
Cheers,
aj
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