Date: 18 Aug 1999 15:00:36 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? Message-ID: <vqcr9l0eol7.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:19:31 %2B0100" References: <19990818121931.A4266@kilt.nothing-going-on.org>
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* From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
* With the repo-change comes an opportunity to change where our docs
* are installed.
Why don't you discuss these stuff BEFORE you make the changes?
* Historically, the documentation has been installed in to /usr/doc. This
Wrong. They have been installed in /usr/share/doc.
* Does anyone have any objections to /usr/local/share/doc/fdp/ as the root
* path for the documentation? 'fdp' is a little bit cryptic, but I like
* TLAs, and the only other alternative I could think of ('docproj', or
* 'doc-proj') is quite ugly.
fdp is even uglier, and I can't recall anyone other than you using
that particular acronym.
* One more thing -- A mid-term goal is for the pre-built docs (HTML, PS, PDF
* and so on) to be distributed as binary packages, to be managed using the
* pkg_* family. I'm pretty certain this precludes putting the documentation
* anywhere other than a subdirectory of /usr/local/, so the old /usr/doc/
* directory is right out.
As a mid-term goal, everything in the system is going to be packages
(if we believe what Jordan is saying) so where it's going is
irrelevant.
Please keep stuff in /usr/share/doc. I don't see any reason to change
that, especially not with all the other changes going on around now.
Satoshi
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