On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:04 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > most packages in Fedora install their development documentation
> > in /usr/share/doc/%{name}-devel-%{version}
> >
> > I find this really annoying because every time a package gets upgraded
> > it breaks the bookmarks I make for documentation for no good reason.
> >
> > Also, most upstream tarballs that actually install documentation by
> > themselves install it in $(datadir)/doc/$(name).
> >
> > Is there a good reason for Fedora to override this usual location and
> > install developer docs in this versioned location ? What do people
> > think ?
>
> Well, for things like db4, openssl, libcurl, gcc/compat-gcc, and
> anything else you're likely to have more than one version of due to
> compatibility requirements, its the best thing to do... However, that
> is maybe 10% of the total package count.
But in those cases the package name is different, so you'd have
/usr/share/doc/compat-gcc vs /usr/share/doc/gcc etc.
- Panu -
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