Re: Docs packaging

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Peter Boy wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 23.08.2005, 17:56 -0400 schrieb Paul W. Frields:
>  
>
> > * Since docs are not absolutely necessary to run a system, Extras seems
> > like the right place to me.  
> >    
>
> Hm, if there is a lack of documentation you can't use a lot of systems.
> Obviously many people can use Fedora despite of a current lack of
> documentation (as we see from FC1 to FC4  :-) ), nevertheless I would
> vote to have the documentation in the core package (at least in the long
> run).
>
>  
Dont forget that packaging them in extras is a good first step and in 
many cases, the logical step before requesting that they be added in core

> Perhaps it is possibly to differ between several documents.
>
> - User guide (if we would have it), yum guide, release notes, etc. 
>  part of core
>  
Release notes is already part of core, packaged with fedora-release rpm

> It isn't indeed. But may be you need some kind of documentation before
> you can use it (e.g. yum guide) or even know about it.
>  
Not really. Fedora installer is getting the ability to use other 
repositories including extras soon. I presume that detail will be in the 
installation guide and users can choose to install the package along 
with anything else in core. If it gets a honourable mention in the 
release notes we are all set

regards
Rahul