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Re: Consistent location of files in -doc packages.



On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 07:00:55AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> writes:
> > > I would suggest what several packages already do: install the docs in
> > > /usr/doc/pkg and have /usr/doc/pkg-doc as a symlink to /usr/doc/pkg.
> > That only works if the pkg-doc package depends on pkg, which isn't
> > alway necessary or desirable.
> Why should that be the case? 

/usr/doc/pkg-doc/copyright = /usr/doc/pkg/copyright; so either pkg-doc
doesn't have a copyright if pkg isn't installed, or pkg-doc and pkg have
the same file included in both packages, and thus conflict.

Cheers,
aj

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