"Please split doc into foo-doc subpackage" -> why?

[James Antill]

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 16:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> I just recieved one of these bugs (#492446), and I'm not sure
> why we'd do this for any package.
> 
> If we split the docs like this:
> 
> - it would be inconsistent per-package
> -- so an admin wouldn't know whether a package had docs or not in
>    the main package without manually trying to install a foo-doc
>    subpackage
> -- they would no longer be there by default if they're needed
> 
> Hence, why do this, when rpm already has a --nodocs flag and
> macro that can be used for space savings on live images?

 My personal feeling is that this is nice in some cases, but not the
majority. If/when we have "Suggests:" I think it'd be a perfect
opportunity to use it on *-docs, until then the only thing I'd recommend
is that people not do rpm installs, or use tsflag hacks :).

-- 
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora