Documentation-only packages

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu May 11 19:28:58 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 11:44 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> > %{_datadir}/doc/%{name} would be better for people wanting to bookmark
> > stuff.
> Well, the kernel-doc package installs its Documentation to
> %{_datadir}/doc/%{name}-%{version}, but is that something that should be
> consistent in other packages (since that -doc is a subpackage and this is
> not)?

The kernel is a special case really as it's normal for multiple versions
to be installed at the same time and it's necessary to distinguish
between the versions.

Paul.





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