Re: removing directories in /usr/share/doc/

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:28:10 -0800 (PST) Patrick Dahiroc <pdahiroc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> is it completely safe to simply 'rm -rf' certain
> directories in /usr/share/doc?
> 
> i've noticed that /usr/share/doc takes up the largest
> disk space in my /usr partition and i hardly ever read
> any doc in it, since i can almost always find the doc
> somewhere in the net.  and some packages even have the
> same doc in different languages taking up even more
> space.  it would be nice if apt-get has an option to
> not install files destined for /usr/share/doc/<package>.

Many times, there will be specific doc packages, i.e.  this 
output from "dpkg -l | grep doc" :
  gnome-db-doc
  gnome-dev-doc
  gnome-doc-tools
  gnumeric-doc
  kernel-doc-2.2.20
  kernel-doc-2.4.17
  multi-gnome-terminal-doc
  phpdoc
  wine-doc

Have you removed all of them, 1st?

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