Bugzilla Bug 186042

Hello,
I'm using mercurial (hg) and it seems some of its files, even binaries get
installed into /usr/share/doc/mercurial-<VERSION>/contrib/
For example hgk, which is a tk script for commit history browsing gets
installed there too, and since "hg view" needs it in $PATH, i have to make a
symlink every time i'm updating mercurial.There are other binary tools there
too, and since they're binaries they don't belong there.
It would be nice if the install script would put the binaries somewhere in
$PATH, or at list make the symlinks instead of the user.

Reproducible: Always

As contrib(uted) scripts which aren't an official part of the upstream package
(despite inclusion in the tarball), I'm going to leave most of them in
/usr/share - especially those which are single-use utilities (e.g. darcs2hg)
and/or require additional programs (e.g. buildrpm, git-viz/*).

Since hgdiff, hg-relink simplemerge and hg-ssh are self-contained and
potentially useful, I'll have them installed to /usr/bin when mercurial is next
revbumped. rewrite-log is completely undocumented, so will stay in /usr/share
for now.

hgk will be controlled by the tk USE flag, but will take some time, as I don't
have any Gentoo systems with X on them.

(In reply to comment #0)

> For example hgk, which is a tk script for commit history browsing gets
> installed there too, and since "hg view" needs it in $PATH, i have to make a
> symlink every time i'm updating mercurial.

I don't think you need a symlink for hgk, just add its path into your ~/.hgrc
file:

[hgk]
path=/usr/share/doc/mercurial-0.9.4/contrib/hgk

aross was retired (#139633), reassigning remaining bugs.

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