On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:16 AM, John Morris <j...@zultron.com> wrote:
> Right now, a "sample-configs" directory is installed into
> ${prefix}/share/doc/linuxcnc/examples.
>
> This is a typical pattern, at first glance, but it turns out that the
> GUIs actually present these as base configurations to users, and do bad
> things when they are not present.
>
> The Fedora Packaging Guidelines are clear that these files must not be
> marked as %doc [1]. However, neither source I found for documentation
> packaging [1,2] said clearly whether files not marked as %doc are
> allowed in %{_defaultdocdir}/%{name}-%{version} (and neither mentions
> that fc20 doc dirs seem to be unversioned).
>
I think the ultimate arbiter is whether (rpm -Uvh --excludedocs
$that_package) will install the files or not. --excludedocs is what the
users are supposed to be using to install without documentation, not (rm
-rf /usr/share/doc $and_a_dozen_of_other_paths).
Mirek
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