On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey everybody, > > looking through my /usr/share/doc today I noticed that there were > surprisingly few packages that actually installed their documentation > there. Not even the SDL package installed its docs in there. I don't > mind this too much as I carry all kinds of library documentation in my > home directory with me at all times to have it accessible when I have no > Internet connection available. > > This left me wondering, though, what Arch's general policy is on > inclusion/exclusion of library/tool/package documentation for > /usr/share/doc and if this policy should be generally applied to AUR > packages as well. > > -- Sven-Hendrik > The policy is to include them unless they are very, very big. In that case, they can be excluded and, sometimes, provided in a separate package at the maintainer's discretion (e.g. qt and qt-doc). In the past, we were removing the docs systemtically, so packages that have not been rebuilt since then might be missing their docs.
