On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:04 -0400, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > On Thursday 12 Apr 2012 22:28 my mailbox was graced by a message from Liam R > E > Quin who wrote: > > > if I want a KDE application I have to install the handbook. > > > Which seems to me exactly right. It's insane to install applications > > without their documentation. > > I have a palmtop (EeePC) with only 4Gb HD, and I consider it would be insane, > given the limited HD space, to install things I do not need for daily use.
The distribution needs to behave sensibly for most users, with the possibility of customising it for individual needs. You found a way to remove the documentation, and presumably you would never read it anyway. I still say individual programs, when installed, should include documentation. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
