>
> While we're at documentations. The other day I had to copy /usr to some
> place else. While doing so, I noted how very large /usr/share/doc is. Yes,
> this is definitely a good thing, and yes I understand guran's problems, but
> I'm not gonna comment on them here.
what about a index-page with all the (html) documentation linked from the
Mandrake-index page in netscape and konqueror(and the 5 million other browsers who are
available today for linux)
>
> Okay, after I realised that it is indeed very huge, I got an idea. What
> about making all the documentation (or at least most of it) optional, in
> that each package provides the documentation in a -doc subpackage? I mean,
> I'm not a developper, but I like to be able to compile a program every now
> and then.
> In order to do so, I need to have -devel packages installed. For example, I
> have gnome-libs-devel installed. This takes ~8 megs. Those 8 megs are a
> clear waste for me, as I'll very probably never have a look at it. Yes, I
> could simply rm it, but that's not the point of having a package manager
> like RPM available.
rpm has the option --nodocs. Maybe this is what you want?
>
> Now, if the, for me unneeded docs could be put in a seperate package, like
> gnome-libs-devel-docs, I could very easily rpm -e it, and still have a
> intact rpm database.
>
> The same argument holds very true also for non-devel packages. As I do some
> database development, I need to have MySQL installed. Okay, during
> configuration I might run into some trouble and might have been glad about
> the MySQL-docs. But now that everything is working without any glitches, I
> simply do not need the MySQL documentation and would this save about 6 megs
> of diskspace.
>
> So, just omitting those two documenations, that I'll never need/read, would
> save me some 14 MB of disk space.
>
> Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not at all saying that those documentations are
> bad - frankly, I haven't had a look at them, so I cannot judge. I'm also
> not saying that they should not be included at all. They really should be
> installed in every installation scheme, maybe besides "expert".
>
> What I'm suggesting is, that documentations are to be split up into seperate
> packages. This would allow to slim down hard disk foot print of Mandrake
> considerably without having to cut functionality.
>
> Please consider my suggestion and share your thoughts about this, as I'm
> interested about it!
>
> Alexander Skwar
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