Trimming the distribution

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Sun Aug 1 16:29:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:24:13AM -0700, Steve G wrote:
> Then the other area that swings in the most packages is simply building the
> documentation during a compile. Some packages use doxygen, docbooks, linuxdoc,
> perl-SGMLSpm, etc. After the build, these packages probably get very little use
> on an average user's machine. This is an area that needs attention/consolidation.

Install with --excludedocs - that is already covered

For a lot of the other stuff where you have patches you think are clear and
justified do you want to start feeding them to Red Hat folks (me if you
want) to merge into the base packages.

Alan





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