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? > If the docs are large it can be a win because the end user doesn't have to download the docs(in the rpm) before it gets installed. Also the use case of a -docs subpackage is when you want to exclude the docs for a single package rather than for every package on the system. In the specific bug you cite I agree with you: 1) --nodocs seems like a better choice for live media. 2) 1 MB doesn't seem excessively large in terms of download size so the case for a -docs subpackage seems a little weak. -Toshio
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