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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> 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.

Perhaps a namcap warning for this case would be helpful. Something like:

WARNING: At least 50% of this package is documentation. Consider
splitting the docs to a separate package.