Re: tex/latex doc install location

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Jonathan Underwood wrote:
On 21/01/2008, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:25:49PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
In fedora should we use this system and put the doc files below
/usr/share/texmf/doc/ or use %doc?
  Notice that this is in line with other languages, the documentation for R
packages (as an example) in under the R tree. I would like to favour the
texmf tree as the natural packaging place of latex documentation.
Anybody else has an advice?


My feeling is we want to make it as easy as possible for users to find
the docs they need. Adding lots of different locations really is
counter to that desire, and we should strive to keep docs in one
location.

I also favor this reasoning but I know that we presently have other examples of documentation following a different upstream convention (For instance, ruby gems). In addition, this case may be more like man, info, or ghelp than like ruby gems.

One thing I'd like to ask about from the original post::
  In tex/latex bundled in fedora (I guess it comes from tetex and it is
  now in texlive) there is a simple system to view documentation.

What is this "simple system"? We do have a rule that nothing marked as %doc should break an application if it is not present on the system. If this help system is integrated into applications (like ghelp for gnome) then this would count under that rule. If it's more like man and info pages then we'd want them to be marked as doc even if they are located somewhere other than %{_docdir}.

-Toshio

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