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From: NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default DOCS for einstalldocs and HACKING file
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 04:54:28
Message-Id: 5758F672.10201@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default DOCS for einstalldocs and HACKING file by "Michał Górny"
1 On 06/08/2016 02:40 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Tue, 7 Jun 2016 18:50:05 -0400
3 > NP-Hardass <NP-Hardass@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> From what I've seen, HACKING is a fairly common doc in FOSS projects.
6 >> It doesn't seem to have been included in the default DOCS for
7 >> einstalldocs in EAPI6. While going through the MATE packages, I noticed
8 >> that we have quite a few packages that include HACKING in DOCS, so I
9 >> cannot delete the DOCS array and take advantage of the automagic doc
10 >> detection feature of einstalldocs.
11 >>
12 >> Does anyone know why we omitted this file from the default DOCS? A
13 >> quick grep of the main repo shows ~370 ebuilds with HACKING listed. Is
14 >> this file no longer considered worthy of being included by default in
15 >> our installed docs? If so, looking for advice on whether it is worth
16 >> keeping or dropping that file from my packages?
17 >
18 > File a Future EAPI bug asking to include it in EAPI 7. I don't see
19 > a reason to omit it by default.
20 >
21
22 Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
23
24 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585428 in case anyone is interested.
25 --
26 NP-Hardass

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