Ghostscript packaging for X11, non-X11 versions

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@netscape.net
Sat Jul 6 12:50:00 GMT 2002


Dario Alcocer wrote:

>Well, my personal preference has always been to include whatever
>documentation a package has, whether it be man pages or supplementary
>HTML documentation.  I figure if space is really an issue for a
>particular user, they can delete the documentation if they wish.
>
>As a maintainer, I'd rather provide the user with the complete package.
>If the original software includes documentation, then in my opinion
>the package I produce won't be complete unless I include the original
>documentation.
>
>In my opinion, distributing software without documentation is like
>selling hardware without manuals.  Sure, you can *still* use it, but
>it's really a pain to download the documentation if you'd like explore
>additional features or configurations.
>
AMEN!

This is how it should be, none of this "pruning" crap or leaving out the 
extras...  And, of course, there's no such thing as "too much" 
documentation.
:-)

Cheers,
Nicholas



More information about the Cygwin-apps mailing list