Bill Nottingham wrote:
I just recieved one of these bugs (#492446), and I'm not sure
why we'd do this for any package.
If we split the docs like this:
- it would be inconsistent per-package
-- so an admin wouldn't know whether a package had docs or not in
the main package without manually trying to install a foo-doc
subpackage
-- they would no longer be there by default if they're needed
Hence, why do this, when rpm already has a --nodocs flag and
macro that can be used for space savings on live images?
If the docs are large it can be a win because the end user doesn't have
to download the docs(in the rpm) before it gets installed. Also the use
case of a -docs subpackage is when you want to exclude the docs for a
single package rather than for every package on the system.
In the specific bug you cite I agree with you: 1) --nodocs seems like a
better choice for live media. 2) 1 MB doesn't seem excessively large in
terms of download size so the case for a -docs subpackage seems a little
weak.
-Toshio