[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

Thu Apr 12 07:50:25 CEST 2012

2012/4/11 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+> Στις 11/04/2012 19:11:55 Wolfgang Bornath γράψατε:
+>> 2012/4/11 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
+>> > Στις 11/04/2012 16:05:23 γράψατε:
+>> >> * I am not at home, actually  how much space they take ? For what kind of
+>> >> size we are talking about ?
+>> >
+>> > The /usr/share/doc/HTML/en folder has a size of 43.5 MiB, which even now if it takes a lot of place anyone can delete this folder from his system.
+>>
+>> We are not talking about deleting data from the harddisk. We are
+>> talking about installing and uninstalling, not just deleting. The
+>> issue is to avoid the installation (if not wanted) and consequently
+>> avoid updates.
+>>
+>> I expected the discussion about the technical options to be quite long
+>> and not at all trivial, I did not expect such a discussion about the
+>> "why". There are valid use cases which answer the "why" quite clear
+>> and simple.
+>>
+>>
+>
+> I dont understand very well.
+
+Yes, I see.
+
+> - We dont have a lot of space so we want to be able to uninstall some software and it has to be the documentation as the most unwanted ?
+> - We want for a question of free choice to be able to choose if we want the documentation to be installed or not ? but this has to be the same for all kde software and dependencies, why is the documentation the problem.
+
+We have been talking about handbooks because they are single packages
+(not included in the software package) which are not needed/wanted by
+everybody and they are not necessary to run the software.
+
+> Dont forget that is a part of KDE and it has a global shortcut F1 to access it. If there is a case that it will be not available until the user install it in a additionally way, it breaks the upstream software.
+
+The important word in your sentence is "if". This does not apply to
+simple applications like kcalc or some simple games or whatever you
+may regard as "simple apps". And as said before: it does not break the
+upstream software.
+
+> It is truth that i spend a lot of time to translate documentation, and i do it with love, so it is normal that i have a preference in their existence in the system; certainly i cannot use this argument here.
+
+Yes, you have to live with that like we all have to. I already said that.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+