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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:53:00 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why does cvsup drop doc in /usr/doc
Message-ID:  <20030330105300.2db1f444.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030327182455.GA40418@mithrandr.moria.org>
References:  <20030327130941.35104ed8.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030327182455.GA40418@mithrandr.moria.org>

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On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 20:24:55 +0200
Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> wrote:

> On Thu 2003-03-27 (13:09), Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > Hey team,
> > 
> > I've got an interesting or wierd question.  Why does the cvsup application
> > drop the docs in /usr/doc instead of /usr/share/doc.
> > 
> > Now I understand that the documentation from the release installs
> > there, and cvsup keeps track of checked out versions.  But can't
> > we just drop doc/ into that directory?  This way those which want
> > to cvsup and update the doc don't get a copy in both places.
> > 
> > Perhaps we do it for the ease of CVS, not sure.  Perhaps someone
> > could elaborate on this.
> 
> I imagine it's because /usr/doc is the "source" and /usr/share/doc is
> where the /usr/doc stuff installs to?
> 

I was guessing that also, but its just `different'.

--
Tom Rhodes



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