On 08/05/2010 10:21 PM, Chen Lei wrote: > 2010/8/6 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 21:13 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: >>>> 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. >> Agreed. It may become a target feature for f15- but it will involve >> changing the format of the repodata and that will be invasive. >> >> >> -sv > At least, we should not ship apidocs for normally desktop program(e.g. > gedit) and not ship duplicate format docs(e.g. shipping html pdf doc > in the same package), personally I like html docs better than doc/pdf. > > I suggest to disscuss extreme big auto-generated apidocs(size > 100M) > rpm case by case, it'll be better to determine whether shipping it or > not by FESCo. I think only popular libraries are worth to ship a big > -doc subpackage, other library packages should not enable generate big > doc subpackage by default, user who really need those docs can > generate -doc subpackage by running 'rpmbuild -bb with...'. > > Regards, > Chen Lei > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging > How about a docs repo seperate from standard repos so end users could disable that repo if they don't want it. Just a thought. Carl Thompson -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
