reducing distribution CD count

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:20:37 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> Filiciano Matias wrote:
> > 
> > I prefer this :
> > $ rpm -q -l yum | egrep "(man)|(doc)"
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13/AUTHORS
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13/COPYING
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13/ChangeLog
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13/INSTALL
> > /usr/share/doc/yum-2.1.13/TODO
> 
> I'd classify those files as "useless bloat."  I could not possibly be
> interested in those files if I didn't have the source code installed.

Then this was a bad example for you. :-)  Yum files are python source
code.  I copied the files and created a version that used wget for
downloading, which works much better than the python code over a dialup
connection.

	-Paul