On 28/11/12 00:06, Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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 >
That's exactly my opinion, therefore doc was dropped and examples is still living. justin
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
