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The `%doc` directive really is just a convenience directive meant to abstract
away the details of "where do I put the doc files?". Cherry-picking them into
separate subpackages based on the resulting absolute paths using `%exclude`
seems to go against the very idea. At that point, you're better
The `%doc` directive is just syntactic sugar for:
1. Install the given file in the build directory into the build root
2. Specify its absolute path in `%files`
Now, `%doc` and `%license` are "special" files (as @ignatenkobrain noted) which
are only processed *after* the normal file entries, meani
