Garrett Holmstrom ([email protected]) said: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Matthew Miller > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Continuing a discussion with gholms on IRC. There's a general question of > > how minimal we want the cloud image to be overall. I'd like to make it > > reasonably small (where reasonable is some hand-wavy value), but we're not > > ever going to be a stripped down TinyLinux or Damn Small Linux. > > > > Garrett makes the point that the Fedora images should "feel like Fedora". We > > can probably discuss what exactly that means, but, okay, I can see that as a > > basic principle to weigh against "as tiny as possible". He also mentioned > > earlier that he has gotten feedback that people like to have man pages > > available. Right now, we're shipping about 6.2MB (on-disk) of man pages, > > but, um, no man browser. Adding man would add about 8.8M on-disk, as it > > pulls in groff and less. (Less is relatively tiny -- groff is the big > > thing.) * > > > > > > I really like having less around. I pretty much miss it on every system > > where it isn't installed. And installing all those man pages with no way to > > look at them seems silly. > > > > Thoughts? Non-binding votes? > > The groff dependency is a bit unfortunate, but now that there's a bug > for it I'm less concerned about it. Man pages aren't particularly > useful without a reader. I suspect people have come to expect pagers, > too. So I'm in favor of that. ;-)
There *is* a page in the minimal install, but I suspect no one has their fingers trained to automatically pipe things through more instead of less. Bill _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
