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

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:00, 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 guess some advanced /etc/portage/bashrc magic isn't enough for you? 
There are some neat tricks you can play with that.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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