> Hi, > > Also, 11M may not be a typical install. I get a far higher number: > __> du -s /usr/doc > 92026 /usr/doc > > Uncompressing this is very likely to annoy me. 11M was for my old 386 box (no X installed) - I'm only using about 200M total on that system. That works out to about 5% of the disk space. The system is quite ancient, but it works great as a Linux machine. If you've 92M of documentation - you probably have a much larger disk - but the % of space dedicated to documentation is probably still around 5%. (My development system has 123M of docs out of a 2GB filesystem - 6.1%) I think you'll find that if we compromise, and store most of the documents in compressed format, except for the HTML documents, your overall disk consumption will not increase by much (as a percentage of the overall disk usage) - maybe the percentage of disk space used for documentation would increase to 7-8% at the most. I'd gladly buy more disk space in order to install more documentation only packages (if they were available). Buying disks to store on-line documentation (even fully uncompressed) is a bargain compared to buying off-line books from Tim O'Reilly and company. Cheers, - Jim
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