On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote:
> If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc
> entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the docs
> USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag would install
> less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many docs are installed
> by default? It's true that some users/situations don't need them, but most
> do, especially as long as we don't have separate server profiles.

I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed oneš, rotting  
in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few hundred KB 
documentation per ebuild, but some install a lot of documentation and 
accumulated it's a lot of wasted space. Filtering out /usr/share/doc as a 
whole is no choice, when you usually want it, but a fair share not.


Carsten


[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116658