Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 06:29:36PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
> > While it may in may cases be OK to not include additional documentation
> > in the base package, the manpages need to stay there - no matter what
> > that means for the build process.

> So far I recall there was idea to remove documents from main package, to make
> base package and whole base distro slimmer, easier to put on CD, Live CD etc.
> The above excerpt is something new to me.

Removing manpages is a broken concept: They are needed to actually use
the programs. Additional documentation may well be moved into another
package, but not manpages. That's similar to removing the --help part
from the binaries to make them smaller.

 Ciao
      Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

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