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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Yes, that's what we're supposed to do; it was probably an oversight.
Splitting big docs like this  will be easy once  the new makepkg with
multi-arch support for split package will be out (assuming the
dbscripts can handle it).