Re: [Fedora-packaging] RFE: Documentation packages - no base packagedependency

On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:40:56 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:

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Proposed addition to the guidelines:

Independent documentation -doc packages typically don't require the
base package. It should be possible to install documentation without
having to install a program and all its dependencies.

Perhaps meaning of "Independent" (documentation) is ambiguous.

"Separate documentation -doc packages ..."?

The word should refer to documentation that has been split off into a separate -doc package (because it's not required at run-time and not at install-time either).

I think it is better to write explicitly that duplicating directory ownership is allowed (if your new proposition is accepted).

That's covered by this already: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#The_directory_is_owned_b...