Jesse Keating (jkeating(a)redhat.com) said:
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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> Hence, why do this, when rpm already has a --nodocs flag and
> macro that can be used for space savings on live images?
I don't think --nodocs flags will remove the deps that are there just to
render the docs, if that is a concern.
I think the main concern was just space. So, looking at the bugs
filed, the documentation takes ~86MB, ~36MB squashed. Most all
of that is the cloudy package (a bunch of PDFs), octave (which
includes the docs in *BOTH* PDF and HTML form for the main manual,
and one seperate document in PDF, DVI, PS, HTML, Texinfo, and info
form!), and wxPython (9MB of samples and demos).
I suspect it's much simpler to weed out extraneous docs than to
worry about splitting off random -doc packages inconsistently.
Bill