On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 11:32:54 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On dom, 10 dez 2017, tomas wrote: > >To put it differently, Debian tends to package docs separately, because > >you might want to set up a storage-constrained system where you don't > >want that extra stuff. To me, that makes sense. > > It also helps the archives, since there can be one > architecture-independent .deb with the docs, and then smaller > architecture-dependent .deb's with the binaries for each > architecture, instead of duplicating the docs in those > architecture-dependent packages.
Yes, bundling the docs with the binaries would be even worse. But I didn't think Gene was ever arguing for that, only for adding a docs dependency to the binary packages, which would bloat each and every installation. Cheers, David.