Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:29:22 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs Message-ID: <20081205062922.GA77328@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <493881F7.9020706@FreeBSD.org> References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org> <20081205.101257.142333304.hrs@allbsd.org> <493881F7.9020706@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:20:55AM +0100, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > Hiroki Sato escribió: > >Gábor Kövesdán <gabor@freebsd.org> wrote > > in <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org>: > > > >ga> Marc Fonvieille escribió: > >ga> > These packages provide html-split version (of course other formats > >are > >ga> > possible, I just want to limit the bandwidth) of the 20081130 docset. > >ga> > Another thing to note, the packages install docs in > >ga> > /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd > >ga> > > >ga> Maybe you could also add an option (like OVERWRITE_BASE or something > >ga> like that) to install them to the usual /usr/share/doc location. In > >ga> this way, we could avoid duplication between the base and the ports > >ga> version and keep using the path we got used to. It is not very smart > >ga> to install things outside from /usr/local, but I think it can be > >ga> useful in some cases and this particular is such one. A couple of > >ga> other ports also do this (like BIND, OpenSSH, etc.). > > > > You have a point, but I prefer eliminating our documentation set from > > /usr/share/doc and make the doc set can be installed from the > > pre-compiled packages, not tarball which uses /usr/share/doc, like > > Xorg to avoid such duplication in the future releases. > > > Yes, that seems even better. I agree with your idea. Although it > wouldn't be nice to leave any installed system without documentation if > it is not explicitly intended by the user. Maybe doc packages should be > installed automatically during the installation just like Perl? > We plan to have a selection menu for the docs with en_US language selected by default and the possibility to add more languages, a bit like it was the case for Xorg. -- Marc
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