[sword-devel] Fedora packaging recommendation

[Greg Hellings]

The conf file tells the engine where it should look for its library. These
aren't the module conf files that need documentation but the master
sword.conf file. There's only a very limited amount of data that can go
into it, but it's not at all unreasonable to have a manpage for this file.
It has nothing at all to do with module creation but rather locating the
installed works.

--Greg

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since the .conf files have no user configuration switches... fedora is
> wrong.
>
> Files of this type, .conf files, in unix regularly have switches. Fedora
> is suggesting the Man pages describe what the end user can do by changing
> the configuration files.  The only thing they can do is cause the program
> to become unstable, since these are not runtime settings but module
> creation statements.
>
> Do you need a manpage to get around this?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 9:48 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Fedora's automatic packaging check suggests that we ought to have a man
>> page for /etc/sword.conf. Knowing nothing about man pages, is there anyone
>> out there who feels that this is important enough to tackle?
>>
>> --Greg
>>
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