On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 23:11, Giorgio Mandolfo wrote: ... > I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ > but to look directly to the new folder. Well, I there is a (very) > simple and boring fact: the <tab> completion locks because there is > /usr/share/doc-base/ too. > I searched for some explanations about it in the Debian Policy, even if > its name is self-explanatory. I did not find anything. > Couri > So my questions/proposals are: > - Why this directory exists? And what is it about?
It contains control files for the doc-base package. See /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html > - Is it possible to move their contents to /usr/share/doc/ allowing a > faster search through the filesystem? No. The files in /usr/share/doc-base/ are not documentation and do not belong in /usr/share/doc/ -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C ======================================== "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." II Timothy 4:2