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Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:03:14 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation
- References: <48A533AF.5010406@users.sourceforge.net>
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According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 8/15/2008 1:43 AM:
>
> As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of copies of
> the same license? IANAL, so does a symlink to the copy in base-files
> suffice, or is the mere presence of the latter enough?
I would prefer the symlink. It's still nice to be able to read a
per-package license by following the symlink.
>
> 3) where to install docs
>
> Could we remove the versioning from the docdir and Cygwin README, IOW:
>
> /usr/share/doc/foo/
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo.README
I like the idea. It may be a while, though before all the packages have
caught up, so we'll see both types in the directory. I'm assuming that if
you change cygport to help with this, the job for most of my packages will
be as simple as rebuilding.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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