Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF

[Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:31:35 -0500
Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 03:41 +0100, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> > For completeness, could you post a list of packages that would
> > benefit from your proposed changes? It's a little thing called
> > scope. :)
> 
> I cannot provide you the full list; for that I would have to rebuild
> the full tree with USE=doc enabled, and I enable it only for a small
> number of packages. But I can give you the packages that I have
> installed on my system right now that install a nontrivial set of
> documentation files in /usr/share/doc/$PF, files that are worth
> bookmarking and would benefit from a location that doesn't change on
> every revision or version bump:

I understand you use some kind of graphical file manager that opens
files for you into some kind of "document viewer". I wouldn't think
anyone tab-completing this on a command line would ever have the need to
"bookmark" stuff otherwise.

> [...]

That's rather a long list. I expected a much shorter list of packages
that use /usr/share/doc/$PF to store data that is read at run time
(which they probably shouldn't do in the first place) so they would
benefit from this. I was not asking for a list of packages that install
documentation in /usr/share/doc/$PF. If that was the only criterium that
mattered, then I wouldn't have asked for a list. :)


     jer