[pacman-dev] [arch-dev-public] info pages

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> Won't that compress e.g. html documentation in ${DOC_DIRS} as well?  In
>> general, that would be bad.
>>
>> I know the reasons are historical, but from a makepkg point of view, why are
>> man pages treated as different from info pages?  I see a good reason for
>> treating the rest of documentation different.  As far as makepkg is
>> concerned man and info pages both need treated the same.  So should info be
>> removed from the DOC_DIRS variable?  Kind of makes the including docs by
>> default redundant if we do that though...
>>
>
> That makes sense.
> First, I am not sure the size concerns when talking about including
> docs was about info pages. IIRC, the only example I heard about was
> glib2 and the gtk-docs folder, so that is not info.
> And besides if info pages are compressed, then size will be even more
> irrelevant.
> So it looks to me that man pages and info pages could always be
> included, and then !docs could be used to strip all the other docs.

Just a side note... I'm fairly certain most browsers would handle
.html.gz, though I can't verify that. html pages are gzipped all the
time coming down the pipe.