I'm proposing a new guideline, that autogenerated documentation must be a reasonable size. The reason for this guideline is that there are a number of packages in the repository with automatically generated documentation that is *far* bigger than the package itself. Some examples: antlr3 - src rpm size: 1.5MB - antlr3-C-doc rpm size: 56MB cloudy - src rpm size: 23.0MB - cloudy-devel-doc rpm size: 110MB kdelibs - src rpm size: 13.9MB - kdelibs-apidocs rpm size: 283MB mrpt - src rpm size: 34.7MB - mrpt-doc rpm size: 252MB xrootd - src rpm size: 1.7MB - xrootd-doc rpm size: 104MB and, my all-time favorite (which sparked this whole thing): root - src rpm size: 27.8MB - root-doc rpm size: 687MB This isn't only a size problem. These packages also tend to have loads of small files (root-doc has over 20,000), all of which end up in filelists.xml, which then get processed by yum when it needs complete filelists. The proposed guideline is at the bottom of the "Queued but unowned" table at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DraftsTodo. I'd love it if it could be discussed and possibly voted on at the next meeting. Jonathan
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