On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > I just recieved one of these bugs (#492446), and I'm not sure > why we'd do this for any package. > > If we split the docs like this: > > - it would be inconsistent per-package > -- so an admin wouldn't know whether a package had docs or not in > the main package without manually trying to install a foo-doc > subpackage > -- they would no longer be there by default if they're needed > > Hence, why do this, when rpm already has a --nodocs flag and > macro that can be used for space savings on live images? My personal feeling is that this is nice in some cases, but not the majority. If/when we have "Suggests:" I think it'd be a perfect opportunity to use it on *-docs, until then the only thing I'd recommend is that people not do rpm installs, or use tsflag hacks :). -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
