Re: [gentoo-dev] prepalldocs is now banned

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:18:03 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > If you don't explicitly need compression, don't do anything.
> 
> You mean if the user has requested compression with PORTAGE_COMPRESS,
> ignore it?

Yup. It's a misfeature. You can see this by considering the proportion
of ebuilds that honour it...

> What about FEATURES="nodoc", ignore it too?

FEATURES is purely a Portage internal, so ebuilds shouldn't be messing
with it.

> > And if you're trying to make a space-critical distribution, start
> > looking at the big things, not the 4% things.
> 
> Typical documentation consists of text files, so I would expect to
> save of the order of 50 % by compressing them. How did you obtain
> above number of 4 %?

The proportion of ebuild-managed content in /usr/share/doc (with
USE=doc, so it's a massive overestimate for space-relevant systems) vs
elsewhere.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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