On Sunday 10 December 2017 15:05:04 Brian wrote: > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 13:12:09 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 10:42:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > For something that can be such a pita, not installing the docs > > > doesn't seem like my error, they should have been part of the > > > install. IMO. > > > > That's ridiculous. I don't want all the docs on all the > > installations. I only install docs on the machines that either I'm > > going to read it on or one with a big disk. > > I believe you are expressing what is standard practice. If you want > any documentation which is packaged separately from the package > itself, you have to request it. "apt-cache show..." or "apt show..." > are very useful.
I expect so, Brian, but one must pipe that output to less as it could be a 100 meg long list. Not impossible, but inconvenient. Thanks Brian. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>