Dear list,
I'm new to Debian. I downloaded the first Lenny DVD and booted it and
installed it. I'm staggered that there can be _five_ DVDs. That's
quite a lot.
In installing, I chose the "desktop" complexion because I wanted to
have a working graphical user interface. Maybe that was a mistake.
What I notice is that /usr/share/info is sparse, and /usr/share/doc is
full, but full of trash.
On the second point, not many people will want to read 1020 changelogs
and 1020 READMEs. What is in /usr/share/doc is an immense wealth of
small oddments from source distributions, three or four from each,
that nobody knew what to do with. Someone might be interested in a
couple of them. Well, they are in the source, unchanged. Anyone who is
interested knows where to get them.
I question whether this is what a Unix /usr/doc is all about. It is
not documentation in any useful sense.
In effect it is just a directory of directory names, giving a list of
the names of all packages installed. Such a list could be provided by
just touching the names.
In /usr/share there is the same immense number of the same directory
names. Everything in /usr/share/doc/yelp could be with the other
stuff in /usr/share/yelp.
I suggest that /usr/share/doc should just contain symbolic links to
the actual documentation directories, /usr/share/man, /usr/share/info
and something pointing to a deposit of html documentation. (I suppose
there is such, but I don't know where it is.) So people looking for
documentation would know where to go.
And 99% of what is in /usr/share should be in, say,
/usr/share/packages, so that what is of general significance in
/usr/share, anything that is not package-specific, such as dict, info,
locale, becomes more visible.
There is more there, apparently, such as installation-report, but
you'd never know, they are just a few needles in the haystack.
Back to question one.
It's the main reason for this message.
There is no libc.info. Can someone please tell me how can I get it?
aptitude search glibc shows:
v glibc-2.7-1 -
i glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation
v glibc-pic -
p glibc-source - GNU C Library: sources
As you can see, I installed glibc-doc. In the hope of getting the
info files. I don't know how to find out what that installation
actually did. But as far as I can see it did nothing useful, and
/usr/share/info is still just about empty. Do I have to download the
source to get the useful doc, while Debian installs stuff of no use to
users as the doc?
--
Miguel
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