[Rule-list] Installing RPM without docs

[Martin Stricker]

Michael Fratoni wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 pm, Marco Fioretti wrote:
> 
> > > For the slinky installer, easily done. (And I like the idea.)
> > > It would only require the addition of a few lines to the scripts.

> > OK. We have also to keep in mind that this should coexist with the
> > post install script we are planning to run, to remove unneeded files
> > (which only *sometimes* are docs). Those scripts should not abort or
> > complain trying to remove dirs/files never installed, and *not*
> > remove docs (without asking) if the user said "keep them".
> 
> Easily handled, I believe. For slinky, we just ask the question, store
> the answer, and export it. The post install script can check the value
> of the exported variable, and determine what it should or should not
> remove.

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.

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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