Re: Where are translated man pages packaged?
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 07:09:00AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
[restored attribution you snipped ...]
> > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:48:15PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > > When grabbing old mails, I found an answer from a developer who told me
> > > that his package is part of base and thus he wants to keep it small.
> > > Is this indeed an important issue?
> >
> > I'd say yes; but those packages will not usually be uninstalled, so I
> > see it as no problem to put manpages for packages in base in a
> > manpages-xx package.
>
> I agree with Wouter. For me would be an issue having the base system
> bigger than it is now. Specially preparing very small "black box" where i
> need to save as much space as i can even during the installation phase.
Can't you basically just 'rm -rf /usr/share/doc /usr/share/man' if
you're tight on space?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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