Re: Feature proposal: New, Standard Documentation System

[Till Maas]

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