Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 08:43:29PM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
> I can understand that, as I am heavy user of man pages, but there was a
> pressure to make distro smaller. What was behind wasn't explained, but the
> goal was set to 128 MB for the very base system and AJ email appeared to be
> very serious.

We are talking about <7kBytes here. The comment also indicates that it
was done for build purposes. Again, the doc package is about 640kBytes
in size - it's OK to split off most of it - but not the manpages.

> BTW, for guys that know how to use man pages installation of extra package is
> a bit more work, but far from a problem ;-)

That's a different topic - also that PolicyKit-doc is missing from the
standard selection is a different topic - what this thread is about is a
thing that is just something I really want to prevent in the beginning.

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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