On Monday 27 December 2010 11:53 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:37:59 -0800 > Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> My question is OT, but just curious. >> >> On Sunday 26 December 2010 03:22 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >>> Frankly the root-doc package is a bad idea, IMHO, but the maintainer >>> disagrees:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621812 >>> >> >> Why is it a bad idea? I thought the maintainer explained why it can't >> be generated during install. And the other suggestion about removing >> the source documentation also doesn't seem feasible to me. (I am a >> ROOT user and I have to use those quite often) > > Well, it's a gigantic package and the base package changes somewhat > regularly. I would personally try and work with upstream to either come > up with another way of making the docs available, or some way to at > least decouple them from the source they don't have to update every > time, or the like. > > At it's worst this was causing every fedora mirror to use up at least > 2,800MB of space, which is nothing to sneeze at. > Thanks Kevin for the response. I wasn't quite looking at it from a general everyone's perspective. Makes sense. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
