[PATCH input-synaptics 2/5] Do not install ChangeLog and README with documentation

Diego Elio Pettenò flameeyes at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 06:53:06 PDT 2011


Il giorno mar, 14/06/2011 alle 09.46 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto:
> I had not noticed before, on my distro the README (but not ChangeLog)
> is installed in doc.
> ChangeLog definitely does not go with docs.

Why not? If I install an update I might as well want to know what the
update consisted of. The files are just as well important for the user
as for the developer.

> Let the distro speak up if they want us to install. 

I'm speaking as a long-time distributor myself.

> If a majority of distro want the README file installed, then let's do
> it everywhere!

Having all of xorg using non-recursive make with parallel install would
indeed be sweet to avoid spending so much time with the cores idle
waiting for link on modules...

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