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

Thu Apr 12 11:44:24 CEST 2012

Στις 12 Απριλίου 2012 7:50 π.μ., ο χρήστης Wolfgang Bornath <
+molch.b at googlemail.com> έγραψε:
+
+> 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.
+>
+
+I don't agree, i consider the handbook as a part of the application, and
+for me a KDE installation without the handbooks it is a broken installation.
+My opinion is that the person who does nt want it has to uninstall it and
+not that the person who want it has to install it
+
+
+
+>
+> > 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.
+>
+
+Yes i have to ...IF finally a such decision will be taken
+
+
+
+-- 
+Dimitrios Glentadakis
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