On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 16:47:05 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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.
brian@desktop:~$ time apt search "\-doc" > docfile real 0m1.793s user 0m1.480s sys 0m0.168s 100 meg is an overestimate. brian@desktop:~$ ls -l docfile -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 355847 Dec 10 22:35 docfile brian@desktop:~$ apt search "\-doc" | grep policy policykit-1-doc/stable 0.105-18 all client for the open policy framework for the cloud - doc python-oslo.policy-doc/stable 1.14.0-2 all RBAC policy enforcement library for OpenStack - doc selinux-policy-doc/stable 2:2.20161023.1-9 all Documentation for the SELinux reference policy Suggestions for something less inconvenient are welcome. -- Brian.