[Frugalware-devel] subpkgs vs docs

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2008. január 22. dátummal Miklos Vajna ezt írta:
> hi,
Re!

> here are possible solutions:
> 1) do nothing and wait till somebody claims about it
> 2) duplicate the LICENSE, etc. files in each subpkgs (this is what
> Debian does iirc)
> 3) create a separate -docs subpkg for these files (i think this is
> horrible :) )
> in fact i do not like any of these. maybe you have a better idea? :)
Well, there _are_ other solutions.

4) foo-license subpkg, and the other foo-subpkgs (ro)depend on it;

5) license-gpl, license-lgpl, license-foo packages, so all the (sub)pkgs can 
(ro)depend on it;

6) is a variation of 5): any given (sub)pkg can (ro)depend on the appropriate 
license-foo pkg, and may even symlink the given LICENSE file as 
usr/share/doc/foo/LICENSE - so the users will even free up some place, as we 
all have quite a bunch of GPL copies in various packages now. (IIRC I have 
seen at least one distro which does this, but can't recall which one.)

To sum up: /me prefers vmiklos' 1), as it's the most obvious to handle ATM. ;)
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