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On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:15, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> Hi Ciaran, |
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> On 3/4/06, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Explanation: a USE flag for trivial stuff that isn't in /etc, doesn't |
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> > slow anything down, doesn't introduce any dep bloat and generally |
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> > doesn't change anything noticeable isn't a USE flag that's giving the |
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> > user any meaningful choice or making things easier for arch teams. You |
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> > do not get bonus points for using more USE flags. |
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> Another point of view are servers, where there's simply no need to |
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> have docs installed on each and every box in a rack. There's no need |
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> to install what a user doesn't need, and having doc and example USE |
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> flags more widely supported means that Gentoo does a better job of |
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> respecting the choice of users. |
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I agree with Ciaran. IMO the convenience of having docs outweighs the modest |
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amount of diskspace/clutter they need (average of 50 MB on my average server, |
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when then rest of the installed packages take at least an order of magnitude |
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more). |
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If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc |
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entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the docs USE |
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flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag would install less |
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docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are installed by |
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default? It's true that some users/situations don't need them, but most do, |
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especially as long as we don't have separate server profiles. |
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