[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

Wed Apr 11 13:52:36 CEST 2012

> 2012/4/11 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+>> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:17:32AM -0400, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
+>>> On Wednesday 11 Apr 2012 05:35 my mailbox was graced by a message from
+>>> Olav
+>>> Vitters who wrote:
+>>> > Â I don't see how excluding documentation makes things more
+>>> practical.
+>>>
+>>> As in "more practical to have diskspace available for data, than have
+>>> it used
+>>> up by documentation I will not need" ?
+>>
+>> You're speaking about yourself. I am speaking in general. How is it more
+>> practical that the documentation is not available? You raise disk space.
+>> I see that as a benefit if you have a small amount of disk space. But I
+>> don't see how that makes not including documentation practical. Might be
+>> practical to have the installer automatically detect a small amount of
+>> disk space and exclude documentation. But in general not having any
+>> documentation available is not practical at all; you have to rely on an
+>> internet connection, hope that the documentation is available online,
+>> furthermore you have to search for it.
+>>
+>> Not installing documentation, Â might be some reasons for it, but
+>> 'practical': I don't see it.
+>
+> The question whether having documentation ready or not is based on
+> individual preferences, there is no general consensus about that as
+> you pretend when you claim to "speak in general". At least this is
+> what this thread told us. In my understanding the point of this whole
+> discussion is to find a way to cater to both sides, (A) having
+> documentation ready if you want it but also (B) being able to *easily*
+> avoid it if you don't want it. At the moment this issue is not solved
+> for (A) AND (B), only for (A).
+>
+> --
+> wobo
+>
+
+doesn't the custom installer have an extra option not to include
+documentation? and if you deselect everything, there's another section
+where you can really remove ALL documentation...
+
+