"Please split doc into foo-doc subpackage" -> why?

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> I just recieved one of these bugs (#492446), and I'm not sure
> why we'd do this for any package.
>
> If we split the docs like this:
>
> - it would be inconsistent per-package
> -- so an admin wouldn't know whether a package had docs or not in
>   the main package without manually trying to install a foo-doc
>   subpackage
> -- they would no longer be there by default if they're needed
>
> Hence, why do this, when rpm already has a --nodocs flag and
> macro that can be used for space savings on live images?

yum's tsflags option in yum.conf also accepts 'nodocs'

unfortunately, if you're using rpm -V it won't know about --nodocs being 
passed in on install.

-sv