]] Jonas Smedegaard > Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37) > > ]] Geert Stappers > > > >> FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have documentation' and > >> 'additional documentation in separate doc package'. > > > > I think we should stop recommending documentation be put in a separate > > package and tell people who don't want docs to exclude the relevant > > parts of /usr/share/doc using dpkg excludes instead. Disk space is > > pretty cheap and we keep complaining about the per-package overhead in > > Packages.gz, so it should be a net gain for most people. > > If I understand you correctly, it will be a loss for those where > bandwidth is expensive: Stripping documentation during install implied > it need to be downloaded.
Sure, but at the same time: docs tend to compress well, and people who do development are more likely to run something up-to-date (like testing or unstable) and so therefore are more likely to be able to handle the bandwidth cost. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
