On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:14 PM, 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? > > Bill > There is another inconsistency. Some -doc subpackages in Fedora require the main package and some don't. I don't know what someone can do with, for instance, API docs of a library without having the library itself. But I don't see a guideline that tells that a -doc subpackage must require the main package. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
