On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alex Kanavin wrote:
>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:11:17 +0300 (MSK)
>From: Alex Kanavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Space on 6.2 CD
>
>Apparently people at RedHat solved the space problem by removing all
>HOWTOs, FAQs and LDP docs. That saved about 80 megabytes. But are these
>docs gone completely (leave english howtos at least, please!) or will they
>appear somewhere else? Also, I was surprised not to see xanim anymore.
>Why? And, finally, many of the packages are not updated, tin and
>AfterStep for example. Hopefully it's because of 'beta' suffix.
Yes, bummer the documentation is gone. ;o( Now I can't answer
newbie's questions by saying "read /usr/doc/HOWTO/xxx-HOWTO"...
I'm assuming RedHat has some other mechanism in place for reading
the stuff, such as links to the stuff online, etc..
My guess is that most people install the stuff, and never read it
or even know it is there anyways... I hope that RedHat at least
continues to package the HOWTO's, etc.. and put them in
powertools, or a "redhat-docs" dir on the site. I'd still like
to be able to download it all in RPM format and install it.
If not though, its really no biggie... I can get the raw stuff
from LDP and package it up myself, and put it on my website for
people to access. At least RedHat is trying to trim stuff off
that is IMHO largely bulk. I was planning on making some custom
CD's minus the non-english docs, plus a bunch of custom addons,
etc.. looks like they made the job a bit simpler. ;o)
Take care,
TTYL
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