On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 16:47:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 10 December 2017 15:05:04 Brian wrote:
>
> > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 13:12:09 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 10:42:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > For something that can be such a pita, not installing the docs
> > > > doesn't seem like my error, they should have been part of the
> > > > install. IMO.
> > >
> > > That's ridiculous. I don't want all the docs on all the
> > > installations. I only install docs on the machines that either I'm
> > > going to read it on or one with a big disk.
> >
> > I believe you are expressing what is standard practice. If you want
> > any documentation which is packaged separately from the package
> > itself, you have to request it. "apt-cache show..." or "apt show..."
> > are very useful.
>
> I expect so, Brian, but one must pipe that output to less as it could be
> a 100 meg long list. Not impossible, but inconvenient.
brian@desktop:~$ time apt search "\-doc" > docfile
real 0m1.793s
user 0m1.480s
sys 0m0.168s
100 meg is an overestimate.
brian@desktop:~$ ls -l docfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 355847 Dec 10 22:35 docfile
brian@desktop:~$ apt search "\-doc" | grep policy
policykit-1-doc/stable 0.105-18 all
client for the open policy framework for the cloud - doc
python-oslo.policy-doc/stable 1.14.0-2 all
RBAC policy enforcement library for OpenStack - doc
selinux-policy-doc/stable 2:2.20161023.1-9 all
Documentation for the SELinux reference policy
Suggestions for something less inconvenient are welcome.
--
Brian.
