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On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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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 |
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> > install less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are |
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> > installed by default? It's true that some users/situations don't need |
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> > them, but most do, especially as long as we don't have separate server |
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> > profiles. |
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> I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed one¹, |
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> rotting in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few hundred |
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> KB 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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I agree that really large docs should be made USE-dependant. This is also |
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consistent with Ciaran's orig post. |
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Dan Armak |
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