On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:18 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 4:22 pm, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > Guys: > > > * promote DEBUILD_OPTIONS=nodocs flag for not building docs > > > > Stupid question, but it be more appropriate to promote separate *-doc > > packages instead? > > It's a question of degree. Packages go for a separate doc package when they > have, say, 1Mb of docs or where the docs are >50% of the total package size. > A nodocs flag would allow us to take out unwanted data from packages that > individually may only have a 'small' amount of doc files but which, together, > account for a large amount of installation space. If there are 50 packages > with only 20k of docs each, it's better to have a flag that takes out the 20k > in each one, just for us, than to put an extra 50 small -doc packages into > the main Debian archive.
I think the biggest benefit of the nodocs (isn't "nodoc" used already?) option (from the point of view of someone who is *building* an embedded system) is that you don't have to _generate_ the docs in the first place. Some documents have more complex build dependencies than the programs that they document. Also, the document generation time may be a significant portion of the build time of a package. timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
