Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: […]
> > > but it's so damn frustrating when I need to look > > up some of the differences. > > On a build slave, i guess you do have the disk space to simply > install all the -doc packages for the packages you are using? > Sure, it's one additional step at install time, but certainly > better than lacking documentation in such a role. > > > And it's a pretty eccentric Linux distro, > > with quite a lot of peculiarities. > > I hope you don't count the use of mandoc among those. :-D Hi Ingo, That's cool… I didn't realize at a time, so I guess mandoc does its job in Alpine Linux as brilliantly as in OpenBSD. Congrats! In regards to installing -doc packages in Alpine, it wasn't such a big deal once I realized the problem. Disk space is not an issue on that build slave either. I think in retrospect the biggest frustration was realizing where the missing doc files are. I don't remember encountering that on other OS'es / distros, for good reason. <rant> BTW, great little distro, I enjoyed Alpine quite a lot. And trying to be security-conscious, I believe immunity through diversity is a thing in the software world as well. The more diverse the kernels, C, TLS libs etc., the better (hurray to standards!). I wonder if Alpine will survive in current form the 2017 "privatization" of the (GPL!) grsec patch, though. I, for one, have decided to completely switch to OpenBSD as a direct consequence of it (from Hardened Gentoo). So far, enjoying contributing to a more diverse world! ;-] </rant>
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