Hi Dumitru, Dumitru Moldovan wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:58:25AM +0200: > On 30.10.2017 00:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Cag wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:49:49PM +0000:
>>> man/info pages, pdf/html docs - in -doc; >> Over my dead body. Software without documentation is completely >> useless, almost a crime. Docs must always be available, even on >> a tiny server. The sysadmin logs into the server, needs a brief >> look at the docs to fix stuff -- and is slowed down because the >> docs aren't there, and a web search turns up the wrong version, >> and a wild goose chase ensues? No way. > So true! I am that sysadmin and have such a system as a build slave > among many others (~30 combinations of OS / distro / arch). I > understand why it is built with docs separated in dedicated packages > (it's Alpine Linux, That's actually an interesting distro. :) > designed originally for embedded stuff, where disk space really > counts), Right. When you design an operating system for a specific purpose, some decisions might actually make sense that would be very bad decisions in a general purpose system like OpenBSD or Debian. > but it's so damn frustrating when I need to look > up some of the differences. On a build slave, i guess you do have the disk space to simply install all the -doc packages for the packages you are using? Sure, it's one additional step at install time, but certainly better than lacking documentation in such a role. > And it's a pretty eccentric Linux distro, > with quite a lot of peculiarities. I hope you don't count the use of mandoc among those. :-D Yours, Ingo
