Re: Can woody-dpkg exclude directory subtrees from being installed?
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 08:59:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> a few months ago, it was discussed if dpkg could be configured to leave
> directory subtrees from being installed. For example, our server systems
> are missing man-db, so the entire /usr/share/man subtree is wasted disk
> space. We could also live without /usr/share/doc on the productive
> machines since we don't read docs there anyway.
>
> Has this been implemented in dpkg for woody? Did I miss this feature
> popping up? There doesn't seem something like this being documented in the
> man page.
No, it has not. It seems that it was originally slated for dpkg 1.9, but
did not make it.
http://bugs.debian.org/68861
> symlinking /usr/share/man to /dev/null doesn't seem to work, the directory
> gets recreated on package installation.
You can always take the localepurge approach, and remove these directories
after dpkg runs, until this feature is implemented in mainstream dpkg.
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- mdz
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