[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

Wed Mar 7 17:46:56 CET 2012

Upgrading to KDE 4.8.1 I realised that substantial time is lost 
+downloading fat handbooks that I do not need.
+
+After taking a closer look, I threw out 65 handbooks which I never asked 
+for and which I do not need. Looking into the details of this flood (rpm 
+-q with a filter for handbooks), the following facts become clear
+
+- the upgrade to kde 4.8.1 added the 4.8.1 handbooks without 
+uninstalling the corresponding 4.8.0 versions
+- I am getting (lots of) handbooks for games, where the games themselves 
+are not installed (I use a minimum install, nevertheless get some games 
+which I remove with urpme kdegames4 - I suspect that this forgets to 
+remove the corresponding handbooks).
+- I am getting (non-requested) kde-l10n-handbooks for french, german and 
+en_GB, probably due to the fact that these languages are specified in 
+the kde locale (languages tab) - to support spellchecking and 
+hyphenation, that should not trigger the handbooks
+
+This is (a) a multiplicator for the time spent downloading and 
+upgrading, and (b) a substantial waste of storage.
+
+I used urpmi --auto-orphans (no negative effects) to get rid of the 
+major part of this flood.
+