-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 06/07/2016 06:19 PM, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 07/06/16 23:50, NP-Hardass wrote: >> From what I've seen, HACKING is a fairly common doc in FOSS projects. >> It doesn't seem to have been included in the default DOCS for >> einstalldocs in EAPI6. While going through the MATE packages, I noticed >> that we have quite a few packages that include HACKING in DOCS, so I >> cannot delete the DOCS array and take advantage of the automagic doc >> detection feature of einstalldocs. >> >> Does anyone know why we omitted this file from the default DOCS? A >> quick grep of the main repo shows ~370 ebuilds with HACKING listed. Is >> this file no longer considered worthy of being included by default in >> our installed docs? If so, looking for advice on whether it is worth >> keeping or dropping that file from my packages? >> > I made the suggestion a while back in IRC that it would be nice if there > was a way to append to the DOCS array in an ebuild, rather than have to > override it, and remember the standard list every time, or just lose the > extra file(s). Unfortunately I was laughed out of the channel. So, > whilst it would probably be something for another EAPI change .. what do > readers think of the idea of an EXTRA_DOCS variable or similar method > for doing this, for exactly this reason/purpose?? > > MJE
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