On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:09:00AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [restored attribution you snipped ...] > > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > When grabbing old mails, I found an answer from a developer who told me > > > that his package is part of base and thus he wants to keep it small. > > > Is this indeed an important issue? > > > > I'd say yes; but those packages will not usually be uninstalled, so I > > see it as no problem to put manpages for packages in base in a > > manpages-xx package. > > I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system > bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small "black box" where i > need to save as much space as i can even during the installation phase.
Can't you basically just 'rm -rf /usr/share/doc /usr/share/man' if you're tight on space? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
