On 11/27/12 5:49 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 27/11/2012 08:01, justin wrote: >> The reason I introduced the USE here and in general to use it in similar >> locations is that those packages install tons of documentation and >> examples, which I personally don't like to waste my diskspace with. What >> is wrong to give the user this install only option? > > You could go with "minimal" in that case. How big said documentation > would be? Over 100M? Because boost's libraries are 100M without debug > information. > > In general I prefer having everything available by default if it doesn't > require impossible amount of space, add dependency, or take time to build. > > We have INSTALL_MASK and FEATURES=nodoc if you don't want the > documentation, after all. >
Probably you are right. It's around 25% (60-80MB) which we would save. As long we make sure things are in places where noman, nodoc and friends work, it should be fine. justin
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