> 2012/4/11 Olav Vitters <[email protected]>: >> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:17:32AM -0400, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: >>> On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 05:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from >>> Olav >>> Vitters who wrote: >>> > Â I don't see how excluding documentation makes things more >>> practical. >>> >>> As in "more practical to have diskspace available for data, than have >>> it used >>> up by documentation I will not need" ? >> >> You're speaking about yourself. I am speaking in general. How is it more >> practical that the documentation is not available? You raise disk space. >> I see that as a benefit if you have a small amount of disk space. But I >> don't see how that makes not including documentation practical. Might be >> practical to have the installer automatically detect a small amount of >> disk space and exclude documentation. But in general not having any >> documentation available is not practical at all; you have to rely on an >> internet connection, hope that the documentation is available online, >> furthermore you have to search for it. >> >> Not installing documentation, Â might be some reasons for it, but >> 'practical': I don't see it. > > The question whether having documentation ready or not is based on > individual preferences, there is no general consensus about that as > you pretend when you claim to "speak in general". At least this is > what this thread told us. In my understanding the point of this whole > discussion is to find a way to cater to both sides, (A) having > documentation ready if you want it but also (B) being able to *easily* > avoid it if you don't want it. At the moment this issue is not solved > for (A) AND (B), only for (A). > > -- > wobo >
doesn't the custom installer have an extra option not to include documentation? and if you deselect everything, there's another section where you can really remove ALL documentation...
