Bruce Perens writes: > From: Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think we should aim to get all documentation into separate packages. > > Please don't do this. Deity will have the capability to exclude installation > to certain directories (like /usr/doc) based on a system "policy file". > Packages should always contain the documentation for their programs in > at least "HTML" or "man" form. Omitting the documentation should be the > exception, not the rule.
I must disagree here. Here's a summary of the main reasons why I do so: * it will cost bandwidth when you just want to install either binary-only or doc-only, using FTP * further more, it will cost money to users as pay for local calls, here in France * it will cost disk-space on mirror sites, as debian will probably support in a quite short term all 6 (soon 7 ?) kernel-supported architectures. Further more, docs are definetely architecture independant files! Please support me, someone :) Regards, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://monge.univ-mlv.fr/~dirson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
