On 28/09/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/28/05, Mircea Bardac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:33, A. S. Budden wrote: > > > 5. Change makepkg to automatically make two packages -- one with the > > > program and one with the documentation; add a pacman.conf option to > > > automatically install the documentation when installing a package -- > > > for those of use who like application x's help menu to actually do > > > something... (see earlier discussions on this list). > > > > + option in /etc/pacman.conf > > to turn this on by default for all packages, without needing the switch > > > > Probably better in /etc/makepkg.conf
I disagree -- what I was trying to imply with my original post is that all packages built should have a -doc (if they have any docs/info files etc) option and there should be an option in pacman.conf to decide whether or not you want to install them. Sure, add an option in makepkg.conf so individual users can not bother making the -doc package if they want, but the main problem at the moment is the lack of documentation in the repository. I have the "rm -rf" doc/info/gtk-doc lines commented out in my makepkg, so all home-built packages have the documentation, but I don't have any great desire (on my somewhat less than state-of-the-art computer) to rebuild the entirety of every package locally just to get the documentation. Personally I'd rather just have it installed as part as the package, as per the software developers expectations, but I'd be equally happy to accept the alternative of a separate package for documentation, as long as it's there for ALL repository packages. I don't want to go the gentoo way and recompile my whole system (especially not when all I want is a few 'fine manuals'), and this is the only thing that (REALLY) bugs me with Arch Linux -- I use a laptop and sometimes I'm trying to work on the train and realise that such basic expectations as clicking on a help menu are too much for it. Without a network connection I'm up the proverbial creek. Also some packages don't have web-based help, so the only way to get help is to download the source, unpack it and delve around for the documentation. Anyway, I've had a hard day and I can tell that I'm having a bit of a rant (as I am prone to do), so I'll stop now. Regards, Al _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
