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