Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)

[Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net>]

Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> In <397CB4E9.19C578E9@mindspring.com>,  on Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:28:09 -0400,
>  David Merrill <dcmerrill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Stein Gjoen wrote:

> > > /
> > >   usr
> > >     share
> > >        HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
> > >          ascii   - same HOWTOS but as plain text
> > >          PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
> > >          PostScript
> > >          SGML
> 
> > I would prefer "text" to "ascii" on the grounds that the meaning is more
> 
> Agreed.  Translated documents may not be "ascii", while it can still be
> "plain text".  So "text" is more appropriate in that case.

We seem to have a consensus on text rather than ascii, good.

> > apparent to computer neophytes, without any corresponding loss of
> > precision. And, I would add "HTML", yielding:
> >
> > /
> >   usr
> >     share
> >        HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
> >          text    - same HOWTOS but as plain text
> >          PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
> >          PostScript
> >          SGML
> >          HTML
> 
> Again, agreed.

There is a slight problem with the last line, HTML. Originally
I had thought to keep HOWTOs in HTML format at the root of the
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO directory which is similar to the older
/usr/doc/HOWTO. Should we instead keep these
in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML ? In that case we would have to
leave pointers in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO as to where the various
parts have gone.

Regards,
   Stein Gjoen


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