[Bug 329909] New: reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share /doc/packages should be optional - openSUSE Bugs

[Bug 329909] New: reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share /doc/packages should be optional

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329909 Summary: reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share/doc/packages should be optional Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.2 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: ke@novell.com ReportedBy: ep1admin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de QAContact: ke@novell.com Found By: --- a made a great effort to put a minimal x11 system on a quite old machine with enough ram but just 2GB of storage. getting a bigger disk is not an option. it runs with a CF card in an environment that kills harddisk. I ended up with just 70MB of free space or so. eventually I decided to delete /usr/share/doc/packages/* as its contents are useless to me, its just docs and in my case about 150MB large. problem: if I run zypper to update it barfs as some subprocess running cpio cannot find an update target (file or dir). unfortunately this is not ignored and requires user interaction. moreover the rest of the patch is skipped as well - instead of just the missing docs. I don't think those doc-files are critical enough to break an update process. zypper can barf and fill up my logfiles about it, but it should continue to update the important stuff! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 329909] reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share/doc/ packages should be optional

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329909#c1 Karl Eichwalder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|ke@novell.com |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Karl Eichwalder 2007-10-02 01:35:59 MST --- Thanks for the proposal which sounds like a feature request. Assigning to PM for evaluation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 329909] reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share/doc/ packages should be optional

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329909#c2 Stephan Kulow changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|coolo@novell.com |kkaempf@novell.com Severity|Enhancement |Normal Component|Documentation |libzypp QAContact|ke@novell.com |kkaempf@novell.com --- Comment #2 from Stephan Kulow 2007-10-02 03:38:52 MST --- No, this is a bug in the update. It shouldn't barf on missing files, but either restore them or ignore them. Freeing 150 MB of the default minimal+X doesn't sound like a worthy effort. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 329909] reduce opensuse minimal x11 system footprint - /usr/share/doc/ packages should be optional

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=329909#c3 --- Comment #3 from robert spitzenpfeil 2007-10-02 05:07:57 MST --- (In reply to comment #2 from Stephan Kulow)

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No, this is a bug in the update. It shouldn't barf on missing files, but either restore them or ignore them.

agreed.

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Freeing 150 MB of the default minimal+X doesn't sound like a worthy effort.

naturally I have to oppose to that - strongly. 150mb of additional free space is the difference between a useless system and one that works and can run updates without some libzypp cache folder exploding in my face. I don't want to start a rant about too many packages interdependencies which is a problem as well for getting a lean system, that is addressed elsewhere already. back in the days of the commodore c64 every BIT was fought about! but today.... tsk tsk. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.