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Re: docdir with "packages" directory
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Russ Allbery |
Subject: |
Re: docdir with "packages" directory |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:32:27 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) |
John Calcote <address@hidden> writes:
> Just a quick question for those who might know.
>
> I understand that Automake generates ${docdir} as
> ${datarootdir}/doc/${PACKAGE}, as per the Automake manual, section 2.2.3.
>
> While messing around building RPM files recently, I happened to notice
> that most Linux distros like to put documentation files into
> ${datarootdir}/doc/*packages*/${PACKAGE}.
Debian doesn't.
> 2) Is there any movement within the Automake community to move toward
> the LSB directory structure as the default?
Does the LSB say something about this? I don't recall seeing anything
in the FHS, but it's possible that LSB has additional file layout
standards outside the FHS.
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Russ Allbery (address@hidden) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>