* Gonsolo <gons...@gmail.com> [100927 02:57]:
> I own a web server with tight space (1GB). Over 300MB are in /usr,
> over 25MB in /usr/share/doc. I'd like to remove all files in
> /usr/share/doc but unfortunately it is not as easy as removing all
> -doc packages.
Things that take up space:
-- files in /usr/share/doc:
per (Debian) policy, they can be removed w/o side effects to the
operation of the system.
-- files in /usr/share/locales:
mostly translation for binaries, you can have unwanted
ones be removed by localpurge
-- files in /usr/share/man:
man pages, sometimes get translated, too. same as for
locales.
-- files in /usr/share/info:
don't know if emacs hates them to be removed; I vim.
> Is it possible to set up a policy that all packages that have files in
> /usr/share/doc should be -doc packages and split from the main
> package?
Don't see a way: that would mean much efford to the package
maintainers w/o a broad use ...
And personally I think, a package up to 256KB packed size
shouldn't be split up in -bin, -doc. -l10n at all.
And as said before, the files
/usd/<package>/{copyright,changelog(.Debian)?} are even
required by (Debian) policy for each package, so that would
be a contradiction ...
HTH,
flori
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