[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

Wed Apr 11 11:35:06 CEST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:55:32AM +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
+> FWIW, my personal view is that the docs are often easier to access online.  At 
+> least one app I use, installs HTML docs, but requires root privileges to 
+> access them.
+> 
+> I can see the philosophical point about "the instructions come with the 
+> product," but practical considerations should come first.  Often a man page is 
+> enough, and the Debian project seems to have written man pages where the 
+> original package lacks them.
+
+If you do not want documentation, rpm offers such an option
+(--excludedocs). Likely same option is available in urpmi. I can
+understand that you have no need at all for documentation, but disagree
+that in general documentation should not be installed. It should be
+available in case someone might want it. If concerned about disk space,
+then do some extra work and either select minimal, exclude docs, etc. I
+don't see how excluding documentation makes things more practical.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+