07.03.2012 18:46, Juergen Harms kirjoitti: > Upgrading to KDE 4.8.1 I realised that substantial time is lost > downloading fat handbooks that I do not need.
Note that installation of handbooks is not new, they were simply previously bundled with the main software packages and they have now been splitted to separate packages. I don't really agree that splitting is useful here, though, but I'm not the KDE maintainer (or maybe I'm missing something)... > After taking a closer look, I threw out 65 handbooks which I never asked > for and which I do not need. Looking into the details of this flood (rpm > -q with a filter for handbooks), the following facts become clear > > - the upgrade to kde 4.8.1 added the 4.8.1 handbooks without > uninstalling the corresponding 4.8.0 versions I don't see any duplicates. I do see many 4.8.0 handbooks but those are simply not upgraded yet, there is no handbook that has both 4.8.0+4.8.1 version installed. > - I am getting (lots of) handbooks for games, where the games themselves > are not installed (I use a minimum install, nevertheless get some games > which I remove with urpme kdegames4 - I suspect that this forgets to > remove the corresponding handbooks). Correct, only "--auto-orphans" will remove the leftover handbooks. This is a bug, the handbooks should depend on the packages that actually contain the software, but they do not. > - I am getting (non-requested) kde-l10n-handbooks for french, german and > en_GB, probably due to the fact that these languages are specified in > the kde locale (languages tab) - to support spellchecking and > hyphenation, that should not trigger the handbooks This one I'm unsure of, as I don't see why kde-l10n-handbooks packages are supposed to get installed in the first place... I'm probably missing something. > This is (a) a multiplicator for the time spent downloading and > upgrading, and (b) a substantial waste of storage. > > I used urpmi --auto-orphans (no negative effects) to get rid of the > major part of this flood. -- Anssi Hannula
