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Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.6.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
it would be cool to be able to uninstall man command. I'm using Debian in
virtual machines and man pages takes a lot of disk space.
I use web version, it easier to read.
Thanks a lot
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.12
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60
ii dpkg 1.18.23
ii groff-base 1.22.3-9
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-14
ii libpipeline1 1.4.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 52.0.2esr-1~bpo80+1
ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 57.0.2987.133-1
pn groff <none>
ii less 481-2.1
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 07:26:02PM +0200, Pavel Dvorak wrote:
> it would be cool to be able to uninstall man command.
apt purge man-db
If something else depends on man-db unnecessarily, then that would be
something to take up with the maintainers of those packages, not with
me. As far as I'm concerned man-db is generally a good idea to have but
is completely optional.
> I'm using Debian in virtual machines and man pages takes a lot of disk
> space.
That has nothing to do with man-db as such, but you can cause dpkg to
exclude manual pages from packages when installing them by putting
something like this in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/local:
path-exclude /usr/share/man/*
See dpkg(1) and dpkg.cfg(5).
Regards,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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