[Rule-list] Installing RPM without docs

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Monday 03 June 2002 05:15 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:

> Sounds good. One maybe quite stupid addition: I don't know what RPM
> throws out as docs when told so. If it even trashes the man and info
> pages there should be three options:
> What do you want to to about software documentation? [default
> "recommended"]
> 1) Remove it completely. Warning: There won't even man pages be left!
> 2) Recommended usage: Keep only man and info pages.
> 3) Keep all the documentation.

I agree, Martin. We'll need to look into it more and see the best way to 
handle it. For a new user, leaving out all documentation could be a bad 
choice.

I haven't tried it yet, but I would assume the --excludedocs flag would 
leave out all files listed by 'rpm -qd packagename'. This would include 
man pages, info, and /usr/share/docs/ files.

However, in situations where disk space is tight, it's nice to have 
options. On my test machine, (base install plus network tools), I just 
removed /usr/share/doc/* for a space gain of ~23M.

To get a minimal install onto a test laptop with an 80M drive, I had to 
remove all documentation, a good number of kernel modules, most of the 
glibc language data, zone info, etc. With an 8M swap partition, I was 
able to get a very basic system working, and still have a whopping 6M of 
drive space free. :)

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