Jane Dogalt (jdogalt(a)yahoo.com) said:
While I agree that ruthlessly nuking things like /usr/share/doc is a
useful way to make your livecd image smaller, it seems like a bad thing
to me for the case here. In addition to Jeremy's point, I'll just
throw in my anecdotal usage example-
firefox file:///usr/share/doc/qemu-bla/index.html
Is wanting to read the manual for the software you are using on a
livecd something that "doesn't make sense for a *desktop* livecd". I
think the answer is no.
Maybe I'm weird, but I think the stock target for a 'desktop' livecd
probably isn't ever invoking qemu from the command line. The idea
is that help & docs for the things we'd ship on a desktop should
be part & parcel of the apps themselves, not random things hidden
away in /usr/share/doc that someone needs to know to look for.
Bill