Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)

[Guylhem Aznar <guylhem@metalab.unc.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:40:34PM +0200, Stein Gjoen wrote:
> Careful now: /usr/share/doc is defined but /usr/share/HOWTO is not.
> I suggest we comply with the standards : /usr/share/doc/HOWTO

Oops. My mistake.

> Putting HOWTOs in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO (LDP as well as OSWG)
> would make sense, be diplomatical and also technically correct
> as well as be the place people expect to find them.

Ok

> Again I think it should be /usr/share/doc/HOWTO to be FHS compliant.

(did a typo then copy and pasted it with gpm)

> note that this location as well as /opt/ldp still means some sort
> of package has to be made (deb, rpm, tgz etc) and that
> user installed is independent of packaged.

yes. the packages made will use /opt to avoid any conflict with
prepackaged documentation.

As Garry reported, each distro wants to build its own package in its own
way : they will be responsible of "loading" /usr/share/doc/HOWTO with
the HOWTOs, /usr/share/doc/FAQ with the FAQs, etc.

Users downloading doc form linuxdoc.org will have it installed under
/opt/ldp/HOWTO, /opt/ldp/FAQ, etc.

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