On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:00, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 04 March 2006 16:43, Dan Armak wrote: > > If you're concerned about diskspace you can filter out /usr/share/doc > > entirely, so users do have the choice. The problem here is that the > > docs USE flag is off by default. Making more packages use the flag > > would install less docs. Has anyone actually complained that too many > > docs are installed by default? It's true that some users/situations > > don't need them, but most do, especially as long as we don't have > > separate server profiles. > > I have seen quite a few bugs about that and actually have filed one¹, > rotting in bugzilla, myself. I definitely do not care about a few > hundred KB documentation per ebuild, but some install a lot of > documentation and accumulated it's a lot of wasted space. Filtering out > /usr/share/doc as a whole is no choice, when you usually want it, but a > fair share not. > I guess some advanced /etc/portage/bashrc magic isn't enough for you? There are some neat tricks you can play with that.
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