[Fedora-packaging] HTML format preferred over INFO documents

Thomas Spura tomspur at fedoraproject.org
Tue Feb 15 15:47:33 UTC 2011


On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:25:34 +0100
Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:22:51 +0100, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > Another concern, for those of us with several X-less machines, is
> > that HTML isn't as easy to work with as info or man in a terminal.
> > Why switch from info to html, why not provide both?
> 
> I suggest to keep INFO and provide _also_ HTML if you read the Wiki
> page. (BTW as I prefer INFO over HTML myself nowadays.)

Why not just build all documentation available in the upstream tarball
and include them?
What's available, will be packed, and what not, not manually generated.
I think, it should be the choice of upstream.

Or do I misunderstand something here?

	-Thomas


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