diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120310/006676.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120310/006676.html | 105 |
1 files changed, 105 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120310/006676.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120310/006676.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9a5c3d70b --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/20120310/006676.html @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Handbooks%20-%20the%20lot&In-Reply-To=%3C4F5BBF08.6080909%40mageia.org%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="006675.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="006677.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot</H1> + <B>Anssi Hannula</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Handbooks%20-%20the%20lot&In-Reply-To=%3C4F5BBF08.6080909%40mageia.org%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot">anssi at mageia.org + </A><BR> + <I>Sat Mar 10 21:52:24 CET 2012</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006675.html">[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006677.html">[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6676">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6676">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6676">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6676">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>07.03.2012 18:46, Juergen Harms kirjoitti: +><i> Upgrading to KDE 4.8.1 I realised that substantial time is lost +</I>><i> downloading fat handbooks that I do not need. +</I> +Note that installation of handbooks is not new, they were simply +previously bundled with the main software packages and they have now +been splitted to separate packages. + +I don't really agree that splitting is useful here, though, but I'm not +the KDE maintainer (or maybe I'm missing something)... + +><i> After taking a closer look, I threw out 65 handbooks which I never asked +</I>><i> for and which I do not need. Looking into the details of this flood (rpm +</I>><i> -q with a filter for handbooks), the following facts become clear +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - the upgrade to kde 4.8.1 added the 4.8.1 handbooks without +</I>><i> uninstalling the corresponding 4.8.0 versions +</I> +I don't see any duplicates. I do see many 4.8.0 handbooks but those are +simply not upgraded yet, there is no handbook that has both 4.8.0+4.8.1 +version installed. + +><i> - I am getting (lots of) handbooks for games, where the games themselves +</I>><i> are not installed (I use a minimum install, nevertheless get some games +</I>><i> which I remove with urpme kdegames4 - I suspect that this forgets to +</I>><i> remove the corresponding handbooks). +</I> +Correct, only "--auto-orphans" will remove the leftover handbooks. This +is a bug, the handbooks should depend on the packages that actually +contain the software, but they do not. + +><i> - I am getting (non-requested) kde-l10n-handbooks for french, german and +</I>><i> en_GB, probably due to the fact that these languages are specified in +</I>><i> the kde locale (languages tab) - to support spellchecking and +</I>><i> hyphenation, that should not trigger the handbooks +</I> +This one I'm unsure of, as I don't see why kde-l10n-handbooks packages +are supposed to get installed in the first place... I'm probably missing +something. + +><i> This is (a) a multiplicator for the time spent downloading and +</I>><i> upgrading, and (b) a substantial waste of storage. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I used urpmi --auto-orphans (no negative effects) to get rid of the +</I>><i> major part of this flood. +</I> + +-- +Anssi Hannula +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="006675.html">[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="006677.html">[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#6676">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#6676">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#6676">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#6676">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |