Re: root-doc subpackage slightly obese

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On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 10:04 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> As I said in the bug report, I don't think building docs client side
> is the right way to go at all. In the general case this would require
> end users to install extra tools to build the docs, and defeats the
> purpose of a package managed system such as Fedora.

While in the general case, I would agree with you, in this specific
case, I think it's worth building on the client.  687MB is a very large
download, over 90 minutes on a 1mbit/s link, and 45 minutes on a 2mbit/s
link.  Because of the large size and number of files, it also takes a
non-trivial amount of time to actually install the rpm; on my laptop six
minutes.

In comparison, generating the html documents after installing root-*
(excluding root-doc) took 37 minutes on my laptop.  The total install
time is the same for someone with someone with a 3mbit/s link, and
client-side building is faster for someone with a slower link.  At what
point would you say it's worth the tradeoff?

Jonathan

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