Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd
On Mon 11 Dec 2017 at 11:32:54 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On dom, 10 dez 2017, tomas wrote:
> >To put it differently, Debian tends to package docs separately, because
> >you might want to set up a storage-constrained system where you don't
> >want that extra stuff. To me, that makes sense.
>
> It also helps the archives, since there can be one
> architecture-independent .deb with the docs, and then smaller
> architecture-dependent .deb's with the binaries for each
> architecture, instead of duplicating the docs in those
> architecture-dependent packages.
Yes, bundling the docs with the binaries would be even worse.
But I didn't think Gene was ever arguing for that, only for
adding a docs dependency to the binary packages, which would
bloat each and every installation.
Cheers,
David.
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