On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 16:48 -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > This may point to the need for our Makefile.common to provide a use case > > for a locally installed fedora-doc-common RPM. IOW, pointing to (if > > it's available, or possibly if nothing else is available, or... some > > combination thereof?) /usr/share/fedora/doc/docs-common/* for supporting > > stuff with which to build docs "standalone" without CVS. Does that make > > sense? > > Not to me as a doc developer. See, I've got to have CVS for my > document anyway, so I just may as well keep the ../docs-common stuff > checked out. Why be "slightly pregnant"? > > I keep envisioning only two use cases: > > 1) Developer -- eveything local from a CVS checkout, even if I don't > have CVS write permission. > > 2) End user, aka read-only -- install the RPM's and yelp away. > > What am I missing? I'm thinking of the fact that there's no other piece of stuff in Fedora that can't be built or rebuilt entirely from a .src.rpm and assorted BuildRequires. If someone "in the know" @RH says "Shut up, nobody cares," that's good enough for me. :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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