On 04/27/2011 04:56 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
Marking files as %doc helps from the perspective that you can pass in --excludedocs to "rpm -i".
This is useful for installing packages on systems w/ limited disk space, or without the documentation dependencies (man for example),
Mamoru should comment on this since he is the fan of not marking files as a %doc in -doc subpackage.
Ah srry should've clarified. This isn't for the -doc subpackage per-se (I agree it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to mark the files as %doc there), but rather for the main package.
%doc allows you to separate the documentation from the main functionality in the main package without creating a documentation subpackage.
Its just up to the packager to choose which one they think will keep their package(s) more organized and simpler.
-Mo