Re: [libvirt-dbus PATCH 8/9] meson: Install documentation
Sorry, I only see these messages now, after having pushed already :(
On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 15:38 +0200, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 01:52:13PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 10:59:45PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > People who install the RPM packages already get this, but it's
> > good practice so let's make it happen for those who install from
> > source as well.
>
> Do we really want this ? I've not noticed apps doing this in
> general - these files are usually non-installed with autotools
> and meson AFAIK.
It was probably my motivation not to install them in the first place as
well because the user already has the files from sources so there is
usually no need to install them.
One doesn't necessarily keep the source directory around after
installing a piece or software, and the person installing it might
be different from the one interested in looking at these files:
think the user on a managed server curious about what features a
newly-deployed version of some software introduces.
I've checked systemd and they are installing these files using
meson but
GLib for example is not installing them.
After checking other libvirt projects we are not installing this files
using autotools or other build systems.
I can bring up another counter-example that's close to us: QEMU
installs these files, along with a bunch of other documentation.
Taking all of that into account I'm changing my mind and we
should not
install these files from sources as well.
I still think it's a good idea.
The packaging for both Fedora and Debian go out of their way to
include them, and at least for the latter it's strongly recommended
by policy to include NEWS while including COPYING is mandatory.
Clearly both projects consider this information important to users,
and I don't see any disadvantage in installing them even for people
who build from sources directly instead of using a package, only
advantages really.
That said, if you guys feel strongly against installing them, we
can revert my last two commits quite easily :)
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization