On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, I'd question the usefulness of not installing man-pages, because their > sizes are comparatively small on today's disk-scales, e.g. on my primary > system: > # du -sh /usr/share/man > 89M /usr/share/man > > That's almost neglibile in comparision to the overall size of the > installation. Disk usage of many small files can be disproportionate. On some platforms -- embedded, lightweight VMs, the savings are sometimes important. They sure were on XO-1 not that long ago, and I'm not sure what I'd do with docs and manages in an "on-demand" VMs. Having said that, exclude_docs and install_langs have worked well for OLPC and work reasonably well for lightweight VMs too. I am not arguing for big changes here. The plans outlined seem doable, but reworking the whole distro into doc packages to fix something that already works /reasonably well/ seems... not cost effective. There are some limited use cases that aren't ideal now with install_lang and exclude_docs. For example, installing missing docs or langs -- for all or some packages. But that seems like it could be solved by a script that drives rpm to do just that. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@xxxxxxxxx - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first ~ http://docs.moodle.org/en/User:Martin_Langhoff -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
