On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Trent W. Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> writes: > >>>> 1) no hyperlinks, >>>> 2) hyperlinks that will be broken unless other -doc packages are >>>> installed, or >>>> 3) hyperlinks that are guaranteed not to be broken, because the >>>> other -doc packages are install-depends? >>> >>> The option I use is the 2nd, but the other -doc packages are >>> Recommends. Notice that dh_haskell_depends will create the >>> ${haskell:Recommends} variable if you wish to use it, so it's kind of >>> the policy. >> >> 1) loses an important feature, while 3) might annoy people that want >> to save bandwidth/disk space. So 2) with recommends is really neat >> IMHO and should be best practice. > > GHC alone[0] is already too annoying to install on a system where space > is tight, so I wouldn't worry about (3) making it worse. Having said > that, my vote would be for (2). > > [0] 280MB on ARM! That's bigger than my entire internal disk!
Ok, if we're voting, I vote for 3, basically for the same reason JB voted for 2. In this day and age, if space is a consideration you are going to want to go all out - remove all the documentation. If you're not trying to run a Haskell on a wristwatch a few meg of doc packages won't be noticed. Give me working links or give me no links at all (apologies to Patrick Henry.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
