[Slackbuilds-users] xarchiver bug: move of documentation to /usr/doc stops help menu item from working.

[Audrius Kažukauskas]

On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 21:55:42 -0500, Wade Nelson wrote:
> The $VERSION should be there.  /usr/share/doc is a symlink to /usr/doc. 
> Doc dirs should be /usr/doc/NAME-VERSION.  Best option would be to see
> if the ./configure script supports --docdir or could possibly so
> something like run a sed on the Makefile.
> 
> but /usr/doc/xarchiver-0.4.4 is the proper place for documentation.  The
> proper fix would be to get the app to respect that.

I think it's OK to use symlink in this situation.  There are already
Slackware packages, which do exactly that, e.g. Mutt:

  $ ls -l /usr/doc/mutt-1.4.2.3
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-05-29 17:21 /usr/doc/mutt-1.4.2.3 -> mutt/

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Audrius Kažukauskas
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