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On 28/11/12 00:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 27 November 2012 11:49:52 Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: |
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>> On 27/11/2012 08:01, justin wrote: |
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>>> The reason I introduced the USE here and in general to use it in similar |
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>>> locations is that those packages install tons of documentation and |
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>>> examples, which I personally don't like to waste my diskspace with. What |
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>>> is wrong to give the user this install only option? |
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>> You could go with "minimal" in that case. How big said documentation |
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>> would be? Over 100M? Because boost's libraries are 100M without debug |
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>> information. |
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>> In general I prefer having everything available by default if it doesn't |
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>> require impossible amount of space, add dependency, or take time to build. |
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>> We have INSTALL_MASK and FEATURES=nodoc if you don't want the |
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>> documentation, after all. |
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> documentation is not the same thing as examples. if the examples are large |
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> (or even if they aren't), then USE=examples is an acceptable approach to |
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> filtering. |
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> -mike |
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That's exactly my opinion, therefore doc was dropped and examples is |
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still living. |
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justin |