On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:14 -0400, 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?
My personal feeling is that this is nice in some cases, but not the
majority. If/when we have "Suggests:" I think it'd be a perfect
opportunity to use it on *-docs, until then the only thing I'd recommend
is that people not do rpm installs, or use tsflag hacks :).
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James Antill <james(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora