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On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: |
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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 |
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> USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag would install |
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> less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are installed |
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> by default? It's true that some users/situations don't need them, but most |
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> do, especially as long as we don't have separate server profiles. |
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I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed one¹, rotting |
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in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few hundred KB |
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documentation per ebuild, but some install a lot of documentation and |
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accumulated it's a lot of wasted space. Filtering out /usr/share/doc as a |
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whole is no choice, when you usually want it, but a fair share not. |
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Carsten |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116658 |
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