Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> was > heard to say: >>> I think that lintian warning is the right way to do it. >> I don't -- I think there are too many false positives for a lintian >> warning given the thread. I also think this is fundamentally going in >> the wrong direction. Wouldn't our users expect to get the documentation >> with many of these packages by default? Normally you do get some >> documentation with things, and I've always been surprised by, say, ntp >> not including any documentation without installing a separate package. > > I agree with this. I consider installing a program and *not* > installing its documentation to be an unusual situation, and if this > bug is filed I will treat it as a request to make my packages worse. > > aptitude-doc is split out to save archive space and as a feature for > users who want to save a few megabytes by removing the user manual, not > because I want to force users to jump through hoops to get documentation > on their system. > > Daniel > >
If the documentation is something designed to be viewed in a web browser and the user has broadband, it is arguably easier to find it on the web. Even knowing precisely where it is[/usr/share/doc/aptitude is it -doc or just aptitude, oops I already found it online google aptitude doc first result], it is still arguably faster to find it online and once you bookmark it is virtually identical. Travis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org