[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Matt McCutchen]

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 16:15 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:25 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > "Files marked as documentation must not cause additional dependencies that 
> > aren't satisfied by the package itself or its dependency chain as it would be 
> > if none of its files marked as documentation were included in the package."
> 
> Doesn't this exclude things like man pages, since they need a man page
> formatter to display them that would not be required were those docs not
> included in a package?

No, because rpm does not generate a dependency on "man" for packages
that contain man pages.  I guess the idea is that unlike a script which
the user invokes directly and expects to work, a man page is read by
invoking "man", and it will be obvious to the user if "man" is missing
and needs to be installed.

-- 
Matt