On 02/05/2014 11:25 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > > Am 06.02.2014 um 05:07 schrieb Sebastian Kuzminsky <[email protected]>: > >> On 02/05/2014 08:33 PM, Brian Morel wrote: >>> That would be awesome, but I have a lot of work to do to figure out what >>> packages are only required when --enable-build-documentation in the main >>> source tree. What I've done is just removed the enable-build & make docs >>> commands from the debian packaging rules. This stops the building of the >>> three doc packages. >>> >>> I will be working on that though, but it might need some refactoring of the >>> main Makefile, so I'll be going very slow and cautious. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Charles Steinkuehler < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I would *LOVE* to be able to build LinuxCNC without the docs. >> >> I think it's a bad idea to complicate our packaging by making the docs >> deb optional. Disabling the docs is fine for developers doing RIP >> builds, but packaging is for users, and they should have our >> documentation available to them if they want it. > > I think it is time to revisit the concept of 'users' and the platforms they > use - this isnt PC-only anymore > > On embedded system the docs are just baggage for an already crammed flash > file system, and downstream some of those install targets will not even have > a 'desktop', a 'browser' etc to consume all that documentation, or a GUI per > se to start with > > thats why making docs optional makes a lot sense, and eventually not just > docs - GUI's are next
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