[Fedora-packaging] Should INSTALL file presented in RPM?

[yersinia]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 7:37 PM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 09/27/2013 01:08 AM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I plan to file tickets(bugs) to notify packagers of including INSTALL
> > files in RPMs. I think we don't have the needs to ship these files for
> > install instructions.
> >
> > Any ideas? If all you agree I will start doing it now.
>
> NAK, bad idea
>
> Many INSTALL files contain valuable information potentially beyond just
> how to build and install the project. At times it can also be very
> helpful to understand how the RPM packaging may have deviated from the
> generic instructions or may have applied specific configuration to the
> generic installation instructions.
>
> I have seen specific distro README for this, Many packages do something
totally different in different distro. Think to clamav, just for example.

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