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 sure hope Arch never goes the way of Debian, where every application is split into numerous packages. It's the thing I hate most about Debian-based systems. Just look at how many Ubuntu packages there are for the kernel - kernel-build, kernel-doc, kernel-headers, kernel-image, kernel-package, kernel-source, kernel-tree, kernel-wedge, linux-kernel-dev. What a headache :( Scott