[ On Thursday, November 21, 2002 at 09:17:17 (-0800), Jeremy C. Reed wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: html doc location
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 
> > I don't like /usr/pkg/share/doc/html/<package> because I generally don't
> > like naming directories according to the format of its files' contents.  I
> > look for documentation for <package>; the format of that documentation is
> > not in my search criteria.
> 
> One reason could be that you could easily point a webserver's document
> root to that single /usr/pkg/share/doc/html directory to serve up
> documentation for various applications.

That would not be a valid reason -- it could only be a very lame excuse
at best.

Web servers can serve out much more than just HTML content, for one.

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