[maemo-developers] docs and optification

[From: Josef Assad]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:37:42AM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 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.

Agree. I would say that shipping the copyright file is required
though, and that's commonly in docs/appname/ . That's mainly what I've
been looking at that folder for in extras-testing.

> HTH,

It does. Thank you. :)

> Andrew
> 
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