From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Need some help to remove non-free documentation
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 09:28:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg6mwkmp.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3anzalx.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:24:10 +0200")
Hello,
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
Thank you for your answer.
> What I would do in a ‘snippet’ or the origin is:
>
> 1. rm -rf doc
>
> 2. Remove “doc” from the ‘SUBDIRS’ variable of the top-level
> Makefile.in.
That would remove all documentation. However, only a tiny part of it is
non-free. I'm trying to preserve some of it.
> That way you won’t need to regenerate the build files.
>
> Does that make sense or am I too naive?
IIUC, this will unfortunately not cut it.
> (Besides we should get in touch with the folks at Grenoble University to
> see if they would agree to liberating the docs. Perhaps Debian people
> already attempted?)
Debian encounters the same problem, see
<https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/giac/blob/master/debian/giac-doc.README.Debian>.
I don't know if they attempted to contact the author, tho.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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2018-10-22 12:32 Need some help to remove non-free documentation Nicolas Goaziou
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