Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:08:17PM +0200, Rolf Kutz <kutz@netcologne.de> wrote:
> * Quoting Graham Wilson (graham@mknod.org):
>
> > On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:52:58PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> >
> > I think the more important thing to realize is that the reason we have
> > -doc packages is because the documentation for a given program takes up
> > a fair amount of space. If a user installs a -doc package, they know
> > they are getting extra stuff that takes up more space, so they should
> > really get the docs in the most convenient form, not in the most
> > compressed form.
>
> Do you think users with small machines shouldn't
> be able to install docs, too? It's just a one line
> script to gunzip all pdfs in /usr/share/doc.
But in such case, the uncompressed files are out of dpkg's scope and
won't get removed on package removal...
Mike
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