On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: > 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.
I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed one¹, rotting in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few hundred KB documentation per ebuild, but some install a lot of documentation and accumulated it's a lot of wasted space. Filtering out /usr/share/doc as a whole is no choice, when you usually want it, but a fair share not. Carsten [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116658
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