From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10761 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2008 12:04:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 10743 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Aug 2008 12:04:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (HELO QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.62.32) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:03:11 +0000 Received: from OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.11]) by QMTA03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2a6o1a0080EZKEL53c39mL; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:03:09 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([67.166.125.73]) by OMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 2c381a00A1b8C2B3Mc39xL; Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:03:09 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=xe8BsctaAAAA:8 a=hwxRCDP6P-ncNbZ-OHwA:9 a=xUQ-ofK7vCD4xBaFnfgA:7 a=7vSnXwx22bn5pls2pxXprUwt0jkA:4 a=eDFNAWYWrCwA:10 a=rPt6xJ-oxjAA:10 Message-ID: <48A57082.1060007@byu.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:04:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080708 Thunderbird/2.0.0.16 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [RFC] 1.7 Packaging: Documentation References: <48A533AF.5010406@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <48A533AF.5010406@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2008-08/txt/msg00093.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) on 8/15/2008 1:43 AM: > > As for license files, do we really need to install hundreds of copies of > the same license? IANAL, so does a symlink to the copy in base-files > suffice, or is the mere presence of the latter enough? I would prefer the symlink. It's still nice to be able to read a per-package license by following the symlink. > > 3) where to install docs > > Could we remove the versioning from the docdir and Cygwin README, IOW: > > /usr/share/doc/foo/ > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo.README I like the idea. It may be a while, though before all the packages have caught up, so we'll see both types in the directory. I'm assuming that if you change cygport to help with this, the job for most of my packages will be as simple as rebuilding. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkilcIIACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDrxgCgouzcIe6y8ycq68Ig7A211tlJ n+kAn2FLS631LRhneJsefSFYzcR0Y6S2 =sisO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----