Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread John Hasler
green writes: > But there are some -doc packages that are not recommended. Should > this go in policy somewhere? Some -doc packages (such as glibc-doc-reference) are quite large and of interest only to developers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Le 25/08/2010 à 21:42, green a écrit : > Some of the -doc packages are recommended by their parent packages, so > installing recommends works for those. But there are some -doc packages that > are not recommended. yes, but names of doc packages are mostly "pkgname-doc", except several where it

Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread green
Jordan Metzmeier wrote at 2010-08-25 08:19 -0500: > For the majority of packages, this is already the case. There are > exceptions, when packages have large amounts of documentation they can > be split into a separate -doc package (eg. aptitude-doc-en). AFAIK, > there is no easy to way to handle au

Re: howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/25/2010 08:52 AM, Alain Baeckeroot wrote: > Hi > > I would like to have all documentation installed each time i add one package. > Is there some apt/aptitude/dpkg configuration to automate this ? > > by documentation i mean all man/info/html/

howto automatically install documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Baeckeroot
Hi I would like to have all documentation installed each time i add one package. Is there some apt/aptitude/dpkg configuration to automate this ? by documentation i mean all man/info/html/... available with the said package. Alain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o