Re: Embeddded Debian meetup @ Extremadura
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:03:12PM +0200, Timo Savola wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:18 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
>> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 4:22 pm, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>> > Guys:
>> > > * promote DEBUILD_OPTIONS=nodocs flag for not building docs
>> >
>> > Stupid question, but it be more appropriate to promote separate *-doc
>> > packages instead?
>>
>> It's a question of degree. Packages go for a separate doc package when they
>> have, say, 1Mb of docs or where the docs are >50% of the total package size.
>> A nodocs flag would allow us to take out unwanted data from packages that
>> individually may only have a 'small' amount of doc files but which, together,
>> account for a large amount of installation space. If there are 50 packages
>> with only 20k of docs each, it's better to have a flag that takes out the 20k
>> in each one, just for us, than to put an extra 50 small -doc packages into
>> the main Debian archive.
>
>I think the biggest benefit of the nodocs (isn't "nodoc" used already?)
>option (from the point of view of someone who is *building* an embedded
>system) is that you don't have to _generate_ the docs in the first
>place. Some documents have more complex build dependencies than the
>programs that they document. Also, the document generation time may be
>a significant portion of the build time of a package.
I second this, fwiw. Ideally, we may want to have a nodoc and also
something like noman as separate options. Then we would be able to
either build packages which offer docs (and or manpages) or not
and could also allow for installing only manpages (without
other "docs" or vice versa) or no docs and no manpages at all.
For the most part there is not much point in most of /usr/share/*
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