On 22-Aug-00, 18:27 (CDT), Nicol?s Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I subtly avoided those by specifying doc-xxxx rather than xxxx-doc :-) > > FWIW, I think we ought to come to agreement about the proper behaviour: > > right now I don't know *where* to look after installing foo-doc. > > Here the solution is clear to me. A package mutt-doc documenting mutt > should put its files under /usr/doc/mutt, i.e. where a user will go to find > mutt documentation.
That makes sense, except that my usual sequence is this: 1. Look for docs in /usr/doc/foo -- nothing there. 2. apt-get install foo-doc -- success. 3. Since I just installed foo-doc, I tend to look in /usr/doc/foo-doc for the new materials. Silly me. There doesn't seem to be policy on this...maybe there should be. One argument for putting it in .../foo-doc is that if I want the docs without foo, perhaps to see if I want to install it, or if I need/want the docs on a different machine than I need/want the package (think firewalls...) Steve
