On 2016-07-23 18:58 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] 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.
Wouldn't that apply to all packages, as opposed to being able to choose docs-or-not on a per-package basis if installing the packages or not? Being able to chose this per-package rather than in-general seems like something that has value. But perhaps dpkg excludes let me do this per-package too? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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