Separate kdelibs-devel documentation

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Dec 22 13:02:41 UTC 2005


n0dalus wrote:
> Is it possible for /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs-apidocs to be
> seperated from kdelibs-devel?
> 
> On my test system (which is currently low on hard drive space), the
> documentation that comes with kdelibs-devel takes up over 300MB, which
> is almost 10% of the total size of my install (and almost 8% of the
> number of files on my system). This is very costly in terms of disk
> space for something I have not used even once.
> 
> Can this be split into a kdelibs-docs package? Or is there a good
> reason this is so huge?
> 
> Sorry if this has been asked before, I did make a good attempt to
> search the archives and bugzilla but was unable to find anything.

A workaround you could try would be reinstalling the package using the 
--excludedocs option of rpm.

However, this would seem to be a classic example of a case where a 
separate -docs package is justified.

Paul.




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