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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage QA check for FHS/Gentoo policy paths, for top-level dirs and /usr/share/doc
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:10:49
Message-Id: 1538597432.942.7.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Portage QA check for FHS/Gentoo policy paths, for top-level dirs and /usr/share/doc by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Wed, 2018-10-03 at 20:29 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
2 > On Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2018 20:26:23 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > Has anyone said why these things need to be in ${PN}-${PV} rather than
4 > > ${PF}?
5 >
6 > Because API does not change due to Gentoo revisions, and breaking/having to
7 > rebuild docs for that is unacceptable.
8 >
9
10 ...except when it does. We have valid cases for packages simultaneously
11 installing different documentation for different PF but matching PV
12 (e.g. slotted GTK+2 + GTK+3 packages).
13
14 --
15 Best regards,
16 Michał Górny

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