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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO generation
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:53:22 -0800

I agree with Paul's idea here. I hate random files that mean something.
On the other hand a random file that really is a placeholder for a
directory and has no real meaning is better.

Seth

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:55:06PM -0500, Paul Mahon wrote:
> No, I'm also suggesting that the README's be left in there and
> installed. C'mon, who really knows what's supposed to be
> in /usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc ? A file in there might provide spell
> writers with somewhere handy to look this stuff up.
>
> On Thu, 2005-27-01 at 10:31 -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Paul Mahon wrote:
> > > For empty dirs, perhaps you could put a single README file in the empty
> > > dirs explaining what sort of files should go in, and suggested
> > > subdirectory structure... quote bits of the unn... that one standard...
> > > LSB?
> > <snip>
> >
> > But then the ISO scripts would have to remove all the READMEs, which
> > you might as well create the dirs, IMO. Granted, removing the READMEs
> > might be shorter (a simple find and xarg to remove README files, with
> > a few exceptions), it is more complex than: mkdir < iso.dirs
> >
> > -sandalle
> >



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