On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:45:00AM -0500, William F. Dowling wrote: > Sometimes docs don't get installed when you think they should, so > using 'find ...' to find them is fruitless.
locate(1) is good. It can search the whole system quickly. > Suggestion for Debian > maintainers: at install time let me specify "I want all relevant docs > by default". On one system I have (not my notebook) I managed > (newbily surfing through dselect) to have installed gcc, but no gcc > info pages. It took me a while to realize I needed the gcc-doc > package. Why not have foo-docless packages for those who really don't > want docs, and let the package foo contain the docs? Because that wastes space and bandwidth on the mirrors. Packages with separate doc-packages should recommends: foo-doc or suggests: foo-docs. If they don't recommend or suggest the package with the docs, then you should complain or file a bug report. :) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
