On 01/19/2012 05:48 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
On Thursday 19 January 2012, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On IRC, Vincent and Sascha suggested to keep README, NEWS (and maybe AUTHORS) in the base package and move only ChangeLog to the devel package. Another idea was to compress these files.
My personal opinion is that the vast majority of our users does not need any of these. Those developers that need it, will get it from the devel/doc packages.
But on a usual system it's not even worth to safe a few _MEGA_bytes. Should we also drop support for rpm -q --changelog ... to safe ~1M on joe public's system with 1T HD?
What do you think? Any other ideas on getting a smaller base system?
Isn't rpm --excludepath doing the right thing optionally to be used to get a small base systems?
Note: I don't want to make this a hard rule, more a recommendation.
I don't think these standard files above are the worst space consumers in /usr/share/doc/packages. I guess you could safe more space by cleaning up some of the big boys manually first.
For example here is a lot trash to drop /usr/share/doc/packages/zsh/
zsh is not part of the base system I tested. But for the files of zsh, there's really a lot that can be put elsewhere - they're part of the idea "everything besides licenses" Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter/Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn,Jennifer Guild,Felix Imendörffer,HRB16746 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org