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Re: HylaFAX and RPM's




*sigh* why is flexfax@celestial.com in the cc: list? I cannot reply directly, 
get bounced by celestial.

... while talking to camco.celestial.com.:
>>> HELO hewes.icl.ox.ac.uk
<<< 550 You are not permitted to send mail

:-(

>>>>> On Tue, 26 May 1998, "EL" == Evan Leibovitch wrote:

  EL> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Dave Parker wrote:

  +> > Well, FYI I've finished adding my wishlist to the RPM, and once I
  +> > build in Nico's stuff I'll be looking for people to give it a try. The
  +> > previous author broke out man pages and html docs into separate
  +> > packages, something I've yet to remove, but plan to. Da' people need da'
  +> > dox, I say.

  +> Yes.  The docs are great.  There are an awful lot of 'em, but this ain't
  +> M$ we're talkin' about here!

  EL> Hi, Dave.

  EL> There's no need to make separate RPMs for code and docs. There's
  EL> a facility within RPM that allows a packager to flag files as
  EL> documentation, that can be treated separately at install and query time.

Unless I misunderstood, Dave was supporting my proposal to merge the dox back into the main rpm. He was not suggesting they be separate ;-)

My latest build merged them back in, and indeed, rpm -qd returns the list.

-Darren



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