Feature proposal: New, Standard Documentation System

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Nov 28 00:21:32 UTC 2008


On Fri November 28 2008, Gergely Buday wrote:
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> > Anything but HTML is insane in this day and age.
>
> and
>
> > Hell, carrying around documentation is one of the major disk eaters in a
> > Fedora install.
> >
> > $ du -sh /usr/share/doc/
> > 377M    /usr/share/doc/
>
> I guess not the man pages eat that disk space. Their hunger for
> storage is quite minimal. That documentation should be html with
> images and pdf/ps.

And I know it, because manpages live in /usr/share/man:
$ du -hs /usr/share/man
59M     /usr/share/man
$ du -hs /usr/share/doc
604M    /usr/share/doc

Manpages have the big advantage of beeing gziped.

Regards,
Till
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