Am 10.04.2014 00:00, schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson: > > On 04/09/2014 09:12 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> On 04/09/2014 10:05 PM, Billy Crook wrote: >>> I would like to see logic like this: >>> manpage files don't get installed unless/until: >>> 1) packagename-manpages is requested to be installed by the user. that >>> package would require the 'man' package. >>> OR >>> 2) package is installed AND man is installed. >> >> In other words, you want to crippled end-user usability to NULL. > > I would not be dwelling to much on the usability topic since we have bigger issues to fry then end-user usability > with minimal installation footprint for cloud/containers/servers which can be easily solve with same concept as is > behind "command-not-found" for man-pages as in "man-page-not-found" and move cloud/container/server administration > into the realm of "install on demand" ( which arguably we should be moving more towards at on the 21 century rather > then rely on plethora of installation commands and package names ) and ofcourse we would remove the silliness of > having to confirm the installation since I as an administrators have already made the gesture that I need the > command or the man page when I write foo or man foo so I should not have to confirm it to no - if i type "man whatever" and that starts to pull 10 MB packages i stop and think 5 seconds if there is one of my ,ore than 30 machines which have it already
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