On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:22:40PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 22-Apr-07, 17:01 (CDT), Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> wrote: > > I think libraries should be encouraged to provide significant > > documentation - what we have now is simply not enough. > You seem to be arguing that the man pages should be in the core library > package, yes? My objection is against mandating a *separate* -doc > package. Separate doc packages make sense when the documentation is > a significant portion of the total binary package size, and thus Reading between the lines I think Neil is assuming that good documentation has to be large enough to be worth splitting out. I don't think that's a good assumption - for example, one reason people make libraries is to hide some complex algorithm or nasty portability problem. This often results in a library with a very thin API that doesn't require much documentation. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
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