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Installation of selected docs (html)
The latest release has around 560 files (over 2MB) in html.
Any suggestions or ideas on limiting what html is installed?
For example, I don't see value in every ikiwiki install out there to also install personal "users" ikiwiki pages.
For now I copy ikiwiki.setup. And then use pax with -L switch to copy the targets of the symlinks of the basewiki.
I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to install.
--JeremyReed

You don't need any of them, unless you want to read ikiwiki's docs locally.
I don't understand why you're installing the basewiki files manually;
ikiwiki has a Makefile that will do this for you. --[[Joey]]


The Makefile's install doesn't do what I want so I use different installer for it.
It assumes wrong location for man pages for me. (And it should consider using INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR and
MAN1EXT but I don't know about section 8 since I don't know of perl value for that.)
I don't want w3m cgi installed; it is optional for my package.
I will just patch for that instead of using my own installer.
Note: I am working on the pkgsrc package build specification for this. This is for creating
packages for NetBSD, DragonFly and other systems that use pkgsrc package system.
--JeremyReed