What happened to the kernel-doc package?

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 20:59:37 UTC 2015


On 14.01.2015 21:36, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> yum provides /usr/share/doc/kernel* is returning no matches.
> 

Fedora Kernel Meeting Minutes for 2013-12-13
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-December/004741.html
* Removal of kernel-doc  (jwb, 19:19:19)
  * LINK:
    http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/kernel/3.13.0/0.rc3.git4.1.fc21/data/logs/x86_64/root.log
    (jwb, 19:21:37)
  * kernel-doc subpackage brings in asciidoc and xmlto, which bloat the
    BuildRequires for the kernel significantly  (jwb, 19:24:34)
  * ACTION: jwb to drop kernel-doc subpackage  (jwb, 19:24:44)


Local copy of the kernel docs is a very useful phenomenon, 
but let's be happy that we have a kernel.




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