| 1 |
On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
| 2 |
> On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: |
| 3 |
> > If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc |
| 4 |
> > entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the |
| 5 |
> > docs USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag |
| 6 |
> > would install less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many |
| 7 |
> > docs are installed by default? It's true that some users/situations |
| 8 |
> > don't need them, but most do, especially as long as we don't have |
| 9 |
> > separate server profiles. |
| 10 |
> |
| 11 |
> I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed one¹, |
| 12 |
> rotting in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few |
| 13 |
> hundred KB documentation per ebuild, but some install a lot of |
| 14 |
> documentation and accumulated it's a lot of wasted space. Filtering out |
| 15 |
> /usr/share/doc as a whole is no choice, when you usually want it, but a |
| 16 |
> fair share not. |
| 17 |
> |
| 18 |
I guess some advanced /etc/portage/bashrc magic isn't enough for you? |
| 19 |
There are some neat tricks you can play with that. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
Paul |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
-- |
| 24 |
Paul de Vrieze |
| 25 |
Gentoo Developer |
| 26 |
Mail: pauldv@g.o |
| 27 |
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
Archives