location of developer documentation

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 14:04 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> most packages in Fedora install their development documentation
> in /usr/share/doc/%{name}-devel-%{version}
> 
> I find this really annoying because every time a package gets upgraded
> it breaks the bookmarks I make for documentation for no good reason.
> 
> Also, most upstream tarballs that actually install documentation by
> themselves install it in $(datadir)/doc/$(name).
> 
> Is there a good reason for Fedora to override this usual location and
> install developer docs in this versioned location ? What do people
> think ?

Well, for things like db4, openssl, libcurl, gcc/compat-gcc, and
anything else you're likely to have more than one version of due to
compatibility requirements, its the best thing to do...  However, that
is maybe 10% of the total package count.

Dan