Oscar Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe we should build all packages with their respective documentation, > and just modify pacman so that that it can ignore or install the files > in: /usr/share/info and /usr/share/doc, for example: > > pacman -S --documented gcc > > or add an option to pacman.conf like: > > InstallInfos = Yes > > Otherwise the guys that need the documentation would be forced to > recompile every package they need. > If you dont want the Info pages then pacman would just skip copying the > documentation directories...
My suspicion is that the Arch 'no docs except man pages' policy was chosen to reduce the load on the servers. I don't know if that still applies, assuming it ever did. OTOH, big docs go with big programs, and the 1.5MB of info files documenting emacs is fairly small compared to the rest of the package, especially because they compress fairly well. If necessary, there could be a policy that monster docs (over some percentage of the total package) must be split out into a foo-doc package. That would handle gcc, emacs, gdb, etc. Given the size of disks these days, docs don't take much space. It's only when you're trying to crunch down to a small system that it matters. But it's a nice option for pacman to be able to eliminate them. -- KBK _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
