On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:00:02 PM Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > On Sunday 11 Mar 2012 08:59 my mailbox was graced by a message from > Dimitrios > > Glentadakis who wrote: > > As when you get any product it comes with its manual, i believe that the > > handbook of an application is a must have, and an application should > > never be installed without its documentation. > > Some people do not need or want the doc. > > Having installed Mageia on an EeePC with 2GB total disk space (to have with > me when I travel) I certainly do not want to waste disk space with docs > I'll probably never need, and which I can download and install in a couple > minutes in case I really need them. > FWIW, my personal view is that the docs are often easier to access online. At least one app I use, installs HTML docs, but requires root privileges to access them.
I can see the philosophical point about "the instructions come with the product," but practical considerations should come first. Often a man page is enough, and the Debian project seems to have written man pages where the original package lacks them. Doug.
