First of all, I must say that I did not follow the threads about /usr/share/doc, so I may say things which were already said. please forgive me for that.
My very personal opinion about all this, is that we need more abstraction : packages _should_not_ hardcode installation paths. I think that it should be an option that the sysadmin should be able to change anytime, without having to rebuild all packages. Instead of saying "this file must go in /usr/doc", a package should say "this file is a documentation file". The installation program (dpkg for instance) would then know what to do with "documentation files". This has the obvious advantage that in case a standard change, no package is to be changed. Except maybe a package which defines where to put files. And different sysadmins can very easily put files at different places, according to their preferences. What do you think ? -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
