]] Wookey > 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?
dpkg excludes are path based, so you can exclude a single package (or exclude all and include a single one, etc). -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
