%doc package policy

[Owen Taylor]

On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 12:40 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> By FC5, we should make it so nothing in our software relies on the 
> existence of %doc installed files, that is stuff that ends up in 
> /usr/share/doc/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.
> 
> rpm --excludedocs should create an installed system that works exactly 
> the same during runtime.  This is already the case for 99.99% of our 
> packages, so complying with this rule would require very few changes.
> 
> Can we come to agreement on this and add this to packaging policy?

What does "rely on" mean here? The "Help" menu command in fontforge
accesses HTML files that are in the %doc directory. I think it actually
falls back to the web if it doesn't find the files, but say it 
didn't and displayed an error? Is that relying on the %doc files?

Regards,
						Owen

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