Re: Migration to /usr/share/doc
might it be more friendly to tab'ers to rename the dir base-doc instead
of doc-base
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 02:01, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:11, Giorgio Mandolfo wrote:
> ...
> > I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/
> > but to look directly to the new folder. Well, I there is a (very)
> > simple and boring fact: the <tab> completion locks because there is
> > /usr/share/doc-base/ too.
> > I searched for some explanations about it in the Debian Policy, even if
> > its name is self-explanatory. I did not find anything.
> > Couri
> > So my questions/proposals are:
> > - Why this directory exists? And what is it about?
>
> It contains control files for the doc-base package. See
> /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html
>
> > - Is it possible to move their contents to /usr/share/doc/ allowing a
> > faster search through the filesystem?
>
> No. The files in /usr/share/doc-base/ are not documentation and do not
> belong in /usr/share/doc/
>
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