On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:21:48AM +0800, 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...'. > I'm much more in favor of leaving this up to the package maintainers than to have FESCo decide. -Toshio
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