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On Monday 26 December 2005 08:24, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > R Hill wrote: |
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> >>Daniel Ahlberg wrote: |
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> >>>* if ebuild installs COPYING and/or INSTALL into doc. |
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> >> |
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> >>Is this actually important? There are a hell of a lot of ebuilds that |
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> >> fail under this rule. I'd like to start filing patches for some of the |
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> >> packages in this list so I'm interested in knowing what's worth fixing |
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> >> and what's being pedantic. |
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> > |
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> > Not a blocker but just useless. Filing patches for ebuilds doing this is |
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> > greatly appreciated by at least me. |
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> So is there a policy about [not] installing the COPYING or LICENSE files |
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> already? If there isn't one, I propose we make a decision about this to |
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> have uniform behaviour across the tree. |
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there isnt one but i'm all for not installing COPYING/LICENSE/ABOUT-NLS files |
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i dont mind the INSTALL/etc... files because often they contain information |
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that is useful for things other than just configure/make |
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-mike |
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