On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 22:04 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote: > 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. You haven't said why size is a problem in the first place. Are we trying to limit the total size of Fedora packages? (To what?) > 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. To the extent that this sort of thing is a real *general* problem, it needs to be solved on the yum side. -- Braden McDaniel <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
