You complain about all the mailing being to long, etc... etc.... I think its great that there is a good discussion if one of the trusted users judd think it to long or they don't like it they would say so. As far as I know your not a trusted users and if you are your pathtic trusted user.
On 9/29/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey gang;
O.K.....this discussion has gone on long enough IMnsHO.
And it was redundant BEFORE it got started last week or so.
How so you may choose to ask ?
It has already been discussed at least two times in the past couple of
years or so. And NOTHING has changed accept the names of the folks
whining.
Bottom line: Judd does not like docs being part of a package UNLESS they
are help files required by a gui-based app., man pages, or not available
anywhere else (including the web).
This is also VERY old news for arch, going back to its' inception. It
remains a hard and fast declaration of how this distro will work.
Have a nice day. And very best regards;
Bob Finch
> A) Regarding documentation:
> Hey.. why not try this:
>
> 1) alter makepkg to create a second <pkgname>-docs package if there are
> any docs [includes /usr/share/doc and info pages (i badly need these for
> a lot of programs when offline)]
>
> 2) create a separate "docs" repository which has just these document
> packages (these packages have no dependencies on anything, so no
> hastle maintaining them)
>
> 3) The transition to these stuff can go on slowly.. meaning start off
> now, so that all future packages will have docs, dont worry about
> older packages until a rebuild is necessary for some other purpose.
>
> Thus we can endup with an elegant solution pleasing ppl who want
> documentation(*shouts me me me!*) and ppl who dont care about docs.
>
> (disclaimer: i dunno if anyone has suggested this.. but i just got this
> as a brainwave this morning :D )
>
>
> B) Regarding pacman normal features, i request some option to allow
> "automatic downgrading" as i had explained in one of my previous
> threads.
>
>
> Best Regards to the arch team.
>
> --
> Vinay S Shastry
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