On 30.10.2017 00:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > Cag wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:49:49PM +0000: > > >> man/info pages, pdf/html docs - in -doc; > > Over my dead body. Software without documentation is completely > useless, almost a crime. Docs must always be available, even on > a tiny server. The sysadmin logs into the server, needs a brief > look at the docs to fix stuff -- and is slowed down because the > docs aren't there, and a web search turns up the wrong version, > and a wild goose chase ensues? No way.
So true! I am that sysadmin and have such a system as a build slave among many others (~30 combinations of OS / distro / arch). I understand why it is built with docs separated in dedicated packages (it's Alpine Linux, designed originally for embedded stuff, where disk space really counts), but it's so damn frustrating when I need to look up some of the differences. And it's a pretty eccentric Linux distro, with quite a lot of peculiarities. […]
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