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From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, mgorny@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default DOCS for einstalldocs and HACKING file
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 00:54:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5758F672.10201@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160608084019.0ec78917.mgorny@gentoo.org>


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On 06/08/2016 02:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:50:05 -0400
> NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>> From what I've seen, HACKING is a fairly common doc in FOSS projects.
>> It doesn't seem to have been included in the default DOCS for
>> einstalldocs in EAPI6.  While going through the MATE packages, I noticed
>> that we have quite a few packages that include HACKING in DOCS, so I
>> cannot delete the DOCS array and take advantage of the automagic doc
>> detection feature of einstalldocs.
>>
>> Does anyone know why we omitted this file from the default DOCS?  A
>> quick grep of the main repo shows ~370 ebuilds with HACKING listed.   Is
>> this file no longer considered worthy of being included by default in
>> our installed docs?  If so, looking for advice on whether it is worth
>> keeping or dropping that file from my packages?
> 
> File a Future EAPI bug asking to include it in EAPI 7. I don't see
> a reason to omit it by default.
> 

Done. Thanks for the suggestion.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585428 in case anyone is interested.
-- 
NP-Hardass


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      reply	other threads:[~2016-06-09  4:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-07 22:50 [gentoo-dev] Default DOCS for einstalldocs and HACKING file NP-Hardass
2016-06-07 23:19 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-06-07 23:59   ` Austin English
2016-06-08  6:39     ` Michał Górny
2016-06-08 20:22     ` Daniel Campbell
2016-06-08  6:40 ` Michał Górny
2016-06-09  4:54   ` NP-Hardass [this message]

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