On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 10:30:27PM -0400, Philippe Cloutier wrote: >On September 16, 2007 09:57:24 pm Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> There is a bit of history with the perl-doc package... The perl >> community has been at times very critical of the fact that the docs are >> split out *at all*. The argument is that the docs are an integral part >> of the perl distribution. >Are you sure the criticism was about perl-doc being split out, or about perl >not warranting that Perl documentation is installed?
Yes, the issue was most definitely with the splitting out of the documentation. The fact that it was available to be installed was irrelevant. >> If you don't want it, don't install it. >I can avoid installing it, but not when doing a default install. Unless you >think the package should be installed by default, you're the only one that >can avoid that...except perhaps tasksel maintainers by delaying recommends >consideration even more :/ Yes, I do think that the documentation should be installed by default. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
