On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:07:55PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > Sure it's legal, but was it a good idea? > > You could ask the same question from a different perspective: was it a > good idea to change policy to use /usr/share/doc before the transition > was hashed out? And is it a good idea to leave it that way? > > Perhaps the change should be reverted until we have a solution. NO dammit! We made our decision. If we start second guessing every implemented proposal the second it's implemented because it won't be easy we will NEVER GET ANYTHING DONE! I will say once again that I believe fully I was right before in suggesting that joeyh and manoj simply decide how to handle the /usr/doc mess and be done with it. I suspect by no other method will we see an end to this. > > Do you want to argue that the > > current state of the distibution is a Good Thing? > > Well, I don't see any grave problems in having docs in two different > places. No essential part of the system breaks by that, it just causes > some minor inconvenience. inconvenience yes, minor no. It's damned annoying. But I'd live with it if this issue is settled faster for it. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <n3tg0d> has /usr/bin/emacs been put into /etc/shells yet? :P
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