On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Petteri Räty wrote: > Petteri Räty wrote: > > R Hill wrote: > >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: > >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. > >> > >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that > >> fail under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of the > >> packages in this list so I'm interested in knowing what's worth fixing > >> and what's being pedantic. > > > > Not a blocker but just useless. Filing patches for ebuilds doing this is > > greatly appreciated by at least me. > > So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE files > already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to > have uniform behaviour across the tree.
there isnt one but i'm all for not installing COPYING/LICENSE/ABOUT-NLS files i dont mind the INSTALL/etc... files because often they contain information that is useful for things other than just configure/make -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
