Douglas McClendon wrote:
Tim Lauridsen wrote:
Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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Here's a thought:
1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
I'm sure there is /something/ to gain here. If every package on average
installs ~0.5 MB of docs... Would it worth figuring out what docs
should
be on the LiveCD in the first place? I guess removing everything RPM
calls docs is too much, as this will include man-pages as well.
Any thoughts?
I think it is a bad idea, because many people uses the Live CD's to
install to their systems, and then they end up with a system
without doc files, with no easy way to get the docs back on the systems.
That's really not such a hard thing to fix - the easy way to get
things back after installation.
It also relates to a feature I proposed a long time ago
"yum spininstall"
Which would be an easy way to take a livecd installed system, and
presuming online access to good yum repos, trivially upgrade with one
command to the type of default system that you would have gotten if
you had installed from DVD instead of CD.
I.e. I was really peeved that the man-pages rpm did not get installed
(amonst many other subtle choices made in the name of space fitting).
But I didn't want to waste time finding out the specific things I
really wanted, when really I just wanted a "normal system" as defined
by the choices made for the defaults selected on the
non-space-constrained DVD spin.
My theory was that you could take the package selections of the spins,
wrap them in groups, such that with a single yum command, after
installing from livecd, you could get all the packages that would have
been installed from the traditional DVD spin.
Likewise, if you got an itch to do ASIC design, and you had just
installed the normal fedora desktop livecd spin, then you could do
something like "yum spininstall FedoraElectronicLab". (spininstall is
just a random illustration, it could easily enough be wrapped into the
existing groupinstall command).
</steps off of soapbox for the evening>
I don't see how you can read the doc without downloading all the rpms
used to make the livecd and reinstall them.
The LiveCD installer is one of the power features of Fedora 7, i install
all my systems using the LiveCD's and use yum to add extra stuff after
the installation. I the doc are removed then all the system is crippled
and the feature is no longer very useful and that will be a shame.
So if someone creates livecd without docs, they should not be installable.
Tim
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