On Tuesday 27 November 2012 11:49:52 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.
documentation is not the same thing as examples. if the examples are large (or even if they aren't), then USE=examples is an acceptable approach to filtering. -mike
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
