License file in multiple locations

Nils Philippsen nils at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 14:39:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 10:06 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 04/16/2009 10:04 AM, Kalev Lember wrote:
> > 3) Not to mark COPYING as %doc at all, and only install it in
> > /usr/share/%{name}.
> 
> I would do this. If the app requires it at runtime, it's not %doc.

You might even hardlink the file to both places, this would comfort
those who look for the license in %docdir and not waste space for the
majority of people where %docdir and %datadir are on the same volume.

Nils
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