Re: Stop compressing manual pages
On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 at 11:51:40 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
In embedded and other small installations, I'd prefer everyting under
/usr/share/man just excluded from installations on the package manager
level, but I never have been able to find out how to rub dpkg
--path-exclude the right way to do that. While we're at it, exclude
everything under /usr/share/doc with the exception of
/usr/share/doc/*/copyright*
Here's how the semi-official debian:sid-slim, etc. Docker images do it:
https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/blob/master/scripts/debuerreotype-slimify
https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/blob/master/scripts/.slimify-excludes
(each non-comment line $x becomes "path-exclude $x" in /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/docker)
https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/blob/master/scripts/.slimify-includes
(each non-comment line $x becomes "path-include $x" in /etc/dpkg.cfg.d/docker)
smcv
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