I disagree with your premise. man pages are useful, especially if you install an uncommon version of a command (e.g. busybox). I'm not convinced about locales and non-English documentation, but support for Unicode on the command line might be handy if I can get dig compiled with IDN support.
Of course, I'm not building a server for my own use. I'm working on an appliance that my company can offer for sale. Chris Buxton Professional Services Men & Mice On Jun 5, 2008, at 3:03 PM, marty wrote: > Ah, gotta love it. Stupidy. > > checking how to build HTML documentation... not built > configure: error: cannot build HTML documentation > BARF... > ./configure --drop-the-friggin-docs > > I don't want all this intrusive, bloat on my servers!!!! Drop it! > Texinfo, Groff, Man, Man-Pages, Info, etc are garbage. Get rid of > them. > Get rid of the damn locales too. useless. And all those foreign > language crap; > let them learn your language or go elsewhere. I don't want to > accommodate them. > Nobody else does either. All that junk is totally useless on a real > world HLFS > server; (and HLFS has no other valid uses). Only a moron think it is > suitable, > or even needed for a desktop system. > > Marty B. > > > -- > Building a better mousetrap only results in better mice. C. Darwin > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
