Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> Because if you look at the statistics, it's pretty obvious that it's
> a stupid idea. If you've got USE=doc, somewhere around 4% of managed
> files are in /usr/share/doc, and once you take inode sizes into
> account, you can knock that down to about 3% -- and this is for
> people who are already turning on a use flag that wouldn't be on on
> space-relevant systems.

I cannot reproduce this number, but of course it will be different for
every system. Here I have:
   9.5 GB installed files in total
   1.6 GB in /usr/share/doc

That's some 17 %, _with_ PORTAGE_COMPRESS enabled.

Ulrich