Am Freitag 28 Dezember 2007 schrieb Rajko M.: > On Thursday 27 December 2007 07:22:13 pm Joerg Mayer wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:29:36PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > > > > While it may in may cases be OK to not include additional > > > > documentation in the base package, the manpages need to stay there - > > > > no matter what that means for the build process. > > > > > > So far I recall there was idea to remove documents from main package, > > > to make base package and whole base distro slimmer, easier to put on > > > CD, Live CD etc. The above excerpt is something new to me. > > > > Removing manpages is a broken concept: They are needed to actually use > > the programs. Additional documentation may well be moved into another > > package, but not manpages. That's similar to removing the --help part > > from the binaries to make them smaller. > > ... > > I can understand that, as I am heavy user of man pages, but there was a > pressure to make distro smaller. What was behind wasn't explained, but the > goal was set to 128 MB for the very base system and AJ email appeared to be > very serious. This has nothing to do with that. The reason the docs are split out is that PolicyKit is a pretty basic package required by many other packages for building. And if such a basic package requires texlive to build, we have to wait even longer before we can push out a new Factory snapshot.
So we split these basic packages with big build dependencies into two source rpms. This does not stop anyone from adding a Recommend or even a Require to the base package - I would suggest a Recommend, because the man page is still only nice to have for people not wanting to use Policykit. So just file a bug report. Greetings, Stephan > > BTW, for guys that know how to use man pages installation of extra package > is a bit more work, but far from a problem ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
