Am 09.04.2014 23:01, schrieb Billy Crook:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Reindl Harald
<h.reindl(a)thelounge.net <mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote:
Am 09.04.2014 22:05, schrieb Billy Crook:
> I would like to see logic like this:
> manpage files don't get installed unless/until:
> 1) packagename-manpages is requested to be installed by the user. that package
would require the 'man' package.
> OR
> 2) package is installed AND man is installed.
>
> Don't wan't the manpages taking up disk space? remove the 'man'
package and all manpages disappear.
> Don't use en_US and don't want to waste space on that either, remove the
'localization-en_US' package and its
> corresponding localizations of all installed packages will dispapear too
packages i build at my own have "package-manpages" for any man/doc parts
on all the servers i maintain they are not installed
it's enough to have them on *one* central admin server
heck, on my desktop I might end up just yum installing *-manpages to save time later
really?
compared how often i reinstall a workstation (never) and how often
i need a manpage because "command --help" don't answer the question
that is unlikely
how many manpages do you have installed and how many of them
you ever viewed in the past let say 5 years?
escpecially because the goal is to seperate things which does *not*
mean they are not installed in most setups - a meta-package "postfix"
can pull "postfix-server" and "postfix-manuals" while you can remove
the metapackage and "postfix-manuals"