2007/4/24, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest@gmail.com>:
On 4/24/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com> wrote:
Nah, stripping docs after downloading them is ...mm ...not good. ;-) I was long-time supporter for splitted packages though (-dev, -doc etc., you can see my comments about that idea in some bugreports).
I disagree strongly, but you probably already knew that ;) It seems ridiculous to me to have packages with just docs. What happened to KISS? I guarantee that the vast majority of users will either want all docs or want no docs, not some in between on a per-package basis. Having vanilla arch packages built with docs and allowing people to specify in their pacman.conf if they want them stripped is very logical.
I don't mind i.e. having php-docs merged into php package. :-) I just don't think stripping docs after downloading is really useful, because disk space is much cheaper than traffic cost and time. ;-) Using the same logic I could think about the option to strip *.h and *.a after downloading, because I don't compile anything on my server so I don't need them. Neither stripping docs nor *.h & *.a helps much _after_downloading_ becase (see above). The reason that we have -doc packages is that there was demand for some of them but since Arch doesn't ship docs - separate packages were created by people who wanted them. Now, include those docs in main package or still provide separate docs - not big deal IMO. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)