We are currently needing to manually set DOCS variable only to include this two files for many gnome packages because seems that they are fairly common then. I think would be really useful for us to also handle this two files to allow us to drop lots of DOCS="AUTHORS HACKING MAINTAINERS NEWS README" from ebuilds that are only needed to append this two files :) Thanks a lot
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0) > We are currently needing to manually set DOCS variable only to include this > two files for many gnome packages because seems that they are fairly common > then. > > I think would be really useful for us to also handle this two files to allow > us to drop lots of DOCS="AUTHORS HACKING MAINTAINERS NEWS README" from > ebuilds that are only needed to append this two files :) no! if maintainer has taken the time to define proper DOCS, it should never be removed! package directory might have semi-empty files that shouldn't be installed and maintainer has defined DOCS="AUTHORS README" to skip everything else. i'd be pretty pissed after seeing people dropping _defined variables with varying content_ from the ebuilds. > > Thanks a lot i'd prefer to see whole default list of files in DOCS be removed, so defining proper DOCS per ebuild would be mandatory.
einstalldocs must not diverge from EAPI 6 spec, and the eutils impl will be disabled starting with EAPI 6. Also nice that somebody bothered CC-ing the one who committed the function.
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #2) [...] > Also nice that somebody bothered CC-ing the one who committed the function. As you weren't listed in the function as maintainer I thought it was now handled by base-system :| because other functions like validate_desktop_entries have their own maintained specified while this not :/. Sorry for that
