-doc subpackage Group tag

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jul 19 20:24:45 UTC 2004


Steven Pritchard (steve at silug.org) said: 
> So should those packages be renamed to whatever-doc (or *-doc be
> renamed to *-docs)?  Or maybe we should just make sure all of the
> packages have a Provides: foo-doc[s] so getting the name wrong still
> works (at least for apt).

Frankly, I've been of the opinion that the docs should be
merged into the main package, and can be installed with
--excludedocs if people want that. I'm probably in the
minority though (and the PHP manual makes this excessive. :) )

Bill





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