Quoting John Gilmore (2013-05-31 20:07:16) > > ... there is a substantial amount of space used by the .gz > > files under one of the man directories, I jumped to the conclusion > > that something was there to use them. > > > > Hence my question about what was the list of binaries (I used > > another term) that will be shipped with the FB? I erroneously > > assumed that somewhere a list of software that we would assume to be > > on the end product. > > The reason that the compressed man pages are there is that each > installed Debian package includes its man pages (since they are small > and often useful, and putting them in separate packages would > complicate the ongoing maintenance of each package). > > The reason that the "man" command itself wasn't there is that nobody > had asked for it yet. I'm sure it can be added to future builds. > (But, I note that adding it also drags in the Groff text-processing > package and the miscellaneous bsdmainutils package, which use another > megabyte of space in the image.)
An alternative to adding a man reader is to strip manpages and other pieces irrelevant for a system not intended for CLI usage, e.g. using localepurge. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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