Re: [gentoo-dev] Gratuitous useflaggery (doc and examples)

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 18:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote:
> 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 one¹,
> 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.

I agree that really large docs should be made USE-dependant. This is also 
consistent with Ciaran's orig post.

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