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Re: [RFC] Making Cygwin README optional

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>On 3/18/2011 12:06 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:28:49PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>>>I wish to propose that Cygwin READMEs no longer be absolutely required
>>>for Cygwin packages, for several reasons:
>>
>>AFAIK, they never were absolutely required.
>
>One could take this, from http://cygwin.com/setup.html, as a
>commandment:
>
>>In your binary package, include a file
>>/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/foo-vendor-suffix.README

Ok, point taken.  I disagree that we should be putting information on
how to rebuild a package (as the rest of that sentence states) in
/usr/share/doc anyway.  That's just a waste of space.

cgf
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