-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think we should aim to get all documentation into separate packages. > > Please don't do this. Deity will have the capability to exclude installation > to certain directories (like /usr/doc) based on a system "policy file". > Packages should always contain the documentation for their programs in > at least "HTML" or "man" form. Omitting the documentation should be the > exception, not the rule. Well, I think that it would be much cleaner for deity to have the ability of "grouping" a set of packages to be installed at once instead of doing partial installs of larger packages. i.e. Instead of keeping everything in one package and tell deity to do a "partial install", why not split the package in three (foo, foo-doc-info and foo-doc-html) and tell deity things like "whenever I select a package, I want you to automatically select also the associated foo-doc-info package" ? This would keep the independence of packages, for example, only foo-doc-info's postinst should worry about installing or uninstalling .info files. Otherwise: Will deity guess which part of the main and big package postinst is in charge of installing .info or register .html and skip it? Moreover, we would not lost our good "granularity" while deity is not still available. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM7BVTCqK7IlOjMLFAQEB2gP/SIPaebGjYttMZNlvaARVj63weH605KoA 0hYEu+wqeStbAH030jEGY4EaxjtvQJGed1meLM1+qwSFSAERQYbj+o6A77pw81O+ 8329bPRn34JTPyaFx5Tm/axHakK1cuNViCPtQoB0475Sb3yWOkVzKvawSFlxyVH6 N+O5v+fJbAw= =gdJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
