Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:12:57 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: gabor@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, marc@blackend.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs Message-ID: <20081205.101257.142333304.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org> References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote in <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org>: ga> Marc Fonvieille escribió: ga> > These packages provide html-split version (of course other formats are ga> > possible, I just want to limit the bandwidth) of the 20081130 docset. ga> > Another thing to note, the packages install docs in ga> > /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd ga> > ga> Maybe you could also add an option (like OVERWRITE_BASE or something ga> like that) to install them to the usual /usr/share/doc location. In ga> this way, we could avoid duplication between the base and the ports ga> version and keep using the path we got used to. It is not very smart ga> to install things outside from /usr/local, but I think it can be ga> useful in some cases and this particular is such one. A couple of ga> other ports also do this (like BIND, OpenSSH, etc.). You have a point, but I prefer eliminating our documentation set from /usr/share/doc and make the doc set can be installed from the pre-compiled packages, not tarball which uses /usr/share/doc, like Xorg to avoid such duplication in the future releases. -- | Hiroki SATO [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkk4gBkACgkQTyzT2CeTzy0HKwCglhVe460MNQezXX2bn8WmJHPl LgYAoNrmYUmAXe6suDuaYz6P7VIcixVM =9aaN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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