* Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: deprecate /usr/share/doc/$PF
@ 2011-12-19 2:26 99% ` Alexandre Rostovtsev
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From: Alexandre Rostovtsev @ 2011-12-19 2:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 23:02 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> What if 'foo' has slot named 'bar', and there is unslotted 'foo-bar'
> package? :P
There are no such examples in the tree. The only ebuilds I could find
with non-numeric slots are various kernel sources, chromium,
google-chrome, beautifulsoup, python-dateutil, b43-firmware,
binutils-apple, gcc-apple, and rep-gtk. If cross-compiling there is also
insight, gdb, newlib, and uclibc, maybe a few more packages from
sys-devel/.
For completeness, I suppose that it wouldn't hurt to add a provision to
allow package maintainers to choose a different documentation directory
if that's required to prevent a file collision.
> > Q5: Then why allow package maintainers to alternatively use
> > $CATEGORY/$PN-0? A5: Why not? It will not hurt anything, will not
> > cause file collisions, and some maintainers of a multislotted
> > package, one of which is 0, might prefer to install that slot's docs
> > in $CATEGORY/$PN-0 to prevent a potential impression that docs in
> > $CATEGORY/$PN apply to all of that package's slots.
>
> This will make the policy less clear, and documentation locations more
> enigmatic for users.
Fair point. OK, let's kill the "-0"; slot 0 goes in $CATEGORY/$PN only.
> While at this, I think we should somehow move
> the docs for all EAPIs to avoid this, and probably move installed ones
> as well.
>
> [...]
>
> I think some of devs agree we should be allowed to fix past mistakes
> without waiting another 20 years till the tree is migrated to a new
> EAPI...
Then we will also need an eclass-based solution for existing EAPIs to
replace dodoc/dohtml.
-Alexandre.
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