Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 08:12:32AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> 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}.
It is more like info pages (and see the other response for more in-depth
explanations...), and should be marked as %doc. And they are rightly marked
as %doc in packages that installs them here (texlive, for example).
Sounds good. FWIW, I think %{_datadir}/texmf/doc is fine.
-Toshio