Re: ocaml-deb documentation packaging

[Georges Mariano <georges.mariano@inrets.fr>]

Sven LUTHER wrote:

> 
> by policy, manpage have to come with each executable anyway, ...
> 

> Well, /usr/share is all arch independent stuff, and as such, it can be (NFS)
> shared between lot of boxes ...
> 
> not sure how dpkg & co handle this though.
Very interesting..., I have some trouble (in my mind) about such points
because on one hand you have a beautiful and rather theoretical statement
(I can do that, fine) and on the other hand you have a practical and
unsolved question (but what may happend If I *really* do that) ...

Anyway, I don't think that it solves the problem of serving documentation
since this will introduce a(n additional and reverse) dependency (mouting
point) between a "user class" machine and the server (there is more
documentation on user's machines...)

PS : I've heard people speaking about sharing/mounting a single /usr (!!) 
across similar boxes ...

PS2 : in fact there is little documentation about managing several Debian
boxes...

PS3 : suppose that I want to add the bibtex2html documentationon our file
server, here is what I have to do : :-(((((

apt-get -s install bibtex2html
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libfreetype6 libkpathsea3 libxaw7 tetex-bin tetex-extra xfonts-scalable
xlibs xutils 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  xbase-clients 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bibtex2html libfreetype6 libkpathsea3 libxaw7 tetex-bin tetex-extra
xutils 
2 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 237 not upgraded.
Remv xbase-clients [xfonts-scalable ]
Inst xfonts-scalable [shellutils on hurd] []
Inst xutils [shellutils on hurd]
Inst libkpathsea3 [shellutils on hurd]
Inst xlibs [shellutils on hurd]
Inst libxaw7 [shellutils on hurd]
Inst tetex-bin [shellutils on hurd]
Inst tetex-extra [shellutils on hurd]
Inst bibtex2html [shellutils on hurd]
Inst libfreetype6 [shellutils on hurd]
Conf xfonts-scalable
Conf xutils
Conf libkpathsea3
Conf xlibs
Conf libxaw7
Conf tetex-bin
Conf tetex-extra
Conf bibtex2html
Conf libfreetype6

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