Re: noarch and repo's

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On Monday 27 December 2010 11:53 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:37:59 -0800
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> My question is OT, but just curious.
>>
>> On Sunday 26 December 2010 03:22 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> Frankly the root-doc package is a bad idea, IMHO, but the maintainer
>>> disagrees:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621812
>>>
>>
>> Why is it a bad idea? I thought the maintainer explained why it can't
>> be generated during install. And the other suggestion about removing
>> the source documentation also doesn't seem feasible to me. (I am a
>> ROOT user and I have to use those quite often)
>
> Well, it's a gigantic package and the base package changes somewhat
> regularly. I would personally try and work with upstream to either come
> up with another way of making the docs available, or some way to at
> least decouple them from the source they don't have to update every
> time, or the like.
>
> At it's worst this was causing every fedora mirror to use up at least
> 2,800MB of space, which is nothing to sneeze at.
>

Thanks Kevin for the response. I wasn't quite looking at it from a 
general everyone's perspective. Makes sense.

-- 
Suvayu

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