Executable example scripts in documentation

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:01:24AM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:08 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Isn't pulling in dependencies a good thing?  As with keeping the
> > examples executable, it helps people who want to run them.
> 
> If the examples are so important to run then why aren't they in
> %{_datadir}/%{name} instead?

Because they are examples, which are part of the supporting
documentation for a package, not a necessary part to make a package
work.

Now if you want to argue for a standard location or standard way to
package examples, that's a different matter which I'd fully support,
because making things easier for users is a good thing.

Rich.

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