Swat isn't documentation. Wouldn't it be better to install it into /usr/lib/samba/swat or /srv/samba/swat?
You're right, but unfortunately the (samba upstream) install phase does consider swat and the documentation a unique subpackage. So, not only swat includes documentation, but it has statical references to it also. Until a patch to the install Makefile is submitted (and maintained), I'd prefer not to change this behaviour.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see what's wrong with: --with-swatdir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/samba/swat \ in the ebuild. Why do we need a patch for the Makefile? I see the statical references to the documentation in swat as help files for the application. So shouldn't them be installed together? Do you want to separate this documentation/help from swat? Thanks, Norberto
well, although installed as part of swat, the documentation should respect both FSH and Gentoo standards: they state that documentation goes under /usr/share/doc/<package> or /usr/doc/<package>, while /usr/lib/<whatever> should be for non-doc components. So the location of swat is now bound to the location of docs. If swat would be separated, I will be happy to put it in a 'more proper' :-) site.
