[cups.general] CUPS documentation and web content at the same place

[Michael Sweet]

On May 4, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> ...
> This causes an issue when distributing CUPS as RPM packages
> because in RPM one specifies documentation files explicitely as
>   %doc /path/to/documentation/cups
> so that the user can decide not to install the documentation
> (via RPM's install-option "--excludedocs") if he doesn't need
> documentation (e.g. on a server machine).
> ...
> Therefore I would like to ask if it makes sense to have
> two configure options, one for the actual CUPS documentation
> and another one for the CUPS web content like
>   ./configure --with-docdir=/path/to/documentation/cups \
>               --with-web-content-dir=/path/to/webcontent/cups

I'm not keen on this approach since it will require substantial changes to CUPS to support it.

Instead, why not just do:

    %doc /path/to/webcontent/help

since all of the online help is stored in the "help" subdirectory?

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair