On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 22:17:12 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 December 2017 19:02:49 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 10 Dec 2017 at 16:43:02 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 10 December 2017 14:12:09 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. > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > David. > > > > > > While I do have spinning rust drives of a terrabyte on both of those > > > credit card sized machines, functioning as swaps and work areas, > > > they are still booting and running from a 32GB sd chip disk. > > > > …whereas the two laptops I mainly type into have respectively 60 and > > 80 GB disks of rust. Both have two root filesystems with different > > versions of Debian. The smaller drive's PC needs a swap partition to > > function, the other needs one for hibernation. Not a lot of space > > left for /home. Installing shedloads of docs for each person's PITA > > would contravene Debian's sensible policies. > > > This I'd guess is important, if you have several users. I don't, except > for amanda and nut, and thats only on this machine. All the rest have > one user, me, known under various aliases
That's not what I meant. You find polkit a PITA, so you want Debian to install the docs automatically when you install the package. Someone else finds ntp a PITA, so they lobby Debian for ntp's docs. "What about rsyslog?" says somebody else. "That should have the same treatment; it's a PITA." Debian's answer: if you want the docs for foo, then install foo-doc, but don't force them onto others by making them a dependency of foo. > because the idiot installer is > now set to give the first user the machines name like pi or rock64. I > spent a month trying to fix user 1000 to be me instead of pi on the pi. Have you tried setting the hostname to "gene" whenever you install onto a new machine, and then changing *its* name to pi or rock64 afterwards. That might be easier. Cheers, David.