On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:15, Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi Ciaran, > > On 3/4/06, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Explanation: a USE flag for trivial stuff that isn't in /etc, doesn't > > slow anything down, doesn't introduce any dep bloat and generally > > doesn't change anything noticeable isn't a USE flag that's giving the > > user any meaningful choice or making things easier for arch teams. You > > do not get bonus points for using more USE flags. > > Another point of view are servers, where there's simply no need to > have docs installed on each and every box in a rack. There's no need > to install what a user doesn't need, and having doc and example USE > flags more widely supported means that Gentoo does a better job of > respecting the choice of users.
I agree with Ciaran. IMO the convenience of having docs outweighs the modest amount of diskspace/clutter they need (average of 50 MB on my average server, when then rest of the installed packages take at least an order of magnitude more). If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the docs USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag would install less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are installed by default? It's true that some users/situations don't need them, but most do, especially as long as we don't have separate server profiles. -- Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key Fingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951
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