[arch-dev-public] The docs/!docs thing again

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Oct 28 00:49:36 EDT 2009


Dan McGee wrote:
> What are we doing this month with docs? I ask because I was rather
> shocked to see this:
>
> dmcgee at kilkenny /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-2.4
> $ pacman -Si gtkmm | grep Size
> Download Size  : 14396.06 K
> Installed Size : 61660.00 K
>
> dmcgee at kilkenny /usr/share/doc/gtkmm-2.4
> $ du -sh .
> 50M	.
>
> That means ~80% of this package is stuff almost no-one is ever going
> to look at. That seems a bit overkill to me to include in our
> packages.
>   

I thought we were splitting them out if they were massive like this.  
e.g. ruby/ruby-docs.   It would seem the best solution.

Allan


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