[Fedora-livecd-list] patch, manifest changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Feb 26 17:53:28 UTC 2007


Jane Dogalt (jdogalt at yahoo.com) said: 
> I always thought it seemed nice if when you launched your help
> documents in the app (with F1 or whatever) that that spawned 
> 
> "htmlviewer file:///usr/share/doc/myapp-version/index.html"
> 
> Thus if that were a packaging guideline, or even unspoken consensus,
> then people would always have a consistent way to reach the
> documentation.  (and embedded systems developers who were really tight
> on memory requirements would have an easy way to nuke all the
> documentation at once).

Well, if we ever go to differential updates, %{_datadir}/myapp
rather than /usr/share/doc/myapp-%{version} will make a difference
in update size.

Bill




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