[pacman-dev] makepkg patch to create $pkgname-docs package for docs

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/4/24, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> On 4/24/07, Scott Horowitz <stonecrest at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/24/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Responding to Roman- not to say you are wrong, but bandwidth has never
> > > been a concern for me and I feel like a lot of other users are the
> > > same way. We should keep that in mind with decisions though, although
> > > Arch has never been marketed as a distribution meant for those with
> > > slow connections- the idea of constant upgrading stomps on that.
> >
> > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=22872
> >
> > Arch may very well become (more) suitable for those with slow
> > connections if this gets merged in the future :) But regardless, the
> > bandwidth used by docs seems pretty negligible...
>
> Very true. I like the effort that has been put into this work, which
> is more than I would have put in, and it looks like it has real
> potential.
>
> On the second note (size of docs), has anyone done some size figures
> on a lot of these things? Taking a selection of packages and getting
> the sizes of the following things would be nice:
> Minimal package (binaries, libraries, /usr/share, etc.)
> Docs
> Locales
> Anything else that could be stripped (either during package builds or
> during install)

For example on my server:
/usr/include - 84M
all *.a is /usr/lib - 65M
/usr/share/locale - 89M
my default locale (Ukrainian) - 1,8M

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)