On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 02:54, Adam Heath wrote: > In doing this, I found several packages that had large quantities of > documentation in a non-doc type package. This meant that all installs of said > package had that documentation around. I think splitting out a -doc is always good if it's more than, say, 10% of the pkgs installed size. > Additionally, we are all aware(I hope) about the naming inconsistencies. No opinion on this. > Also, there is the problem that some docs depend on their foo.deb, others > don't. foo-doc should not depend on the foo, imnsho. For instance, I find myself often working on a remote machine; having the doc locally is much better for reference, but that doesn't mean that I want to have the pkg installed. Hmmm, let's see: apache-doc suggests apache. php3-doc doesn't even suggest php3 postgresql has Suggests: doc-linux-html,pgdocs to name just 3. So, inconsistency is there. I didn't search, so I'll believe you that some -doc depend on their foo. cheers -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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