On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:50:05 -0400
NP-Hardass <np-hard...@gentoo.org> 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?

File a Future EAPI bug asking to include it in EAPI 7. I don't see
a reason to omit it by default.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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