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Re: [bug #41125] -make documentation is un-installable


From: Markus Hitter
Subject: Re: [bug #41125] -make documentation is un-installable
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 13:33:10 +0100
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Am 07.01.2014 08:06, schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald:
> Follow-up Comment #5, bug #41125 (project gnustep):
> 
>> As a package, I'd also appreciate when it would be easily possible
>> to install
>> the documentation in the same run as the rest of the package.
> 
> I sympathise with this … I would like documentation to be generated
> and installed automatically as part of packages.  However, I was
> outvoted on that many years ago and the policy for all the GNUstep
> core stuff is to have documentation separate from the rest of the
> package. I'm sure there were many good arguments for this even
> though they didn't, on balance, convince me (maybe it's been enough
> years that we might re-open that policy discussion).

Undoubtly, making docs installable without having make installed already
would be a good step in this direction. Less obfuscation -> more
installations -> more readers.

> That would appear to be a different issue.
> This issue was titled 'make documentation is un-installable'

Now with being clear the issue actually exists and the confusion is more
a matter of the titles' wording, would you please re-open this bug?

Thank you.




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