[maemo-developers] docs and optification

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:33, Josef Assad <joe at donassad.com> wrote:
> I was just sitting sifting through extras-testing. While verifying
> optification of apps therein, I saw that some apps were chucking the
> docs/appname/ off of /usr/share/ and some were optifying that bit.
>
> Which is preferable?

Historically, shipping as small a package as possible was desirable;
so people didn't includre much (if anything) in
/usr/share/docs/<package>.

Now, if a package uses /opt, it's less of an issue on an N900 -
however for most packages I'd still say much (if any) content in docs
is a waste of space. Certainly, if the same source package is used for
Fremantle and Diablo/Chinook, you don't want to waste space on those
earlier devices.

HTH,

Andrew

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