Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>> Here's a thought:
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>> 1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
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>> I'm sure there is /something/ to gain here. If every package on average
>> installs ~0.5 MB of docs... Would it worth figuring out what docs should
>> be on the LiveCD in the first place? I guess removing everything RPM
>> calls docs is too much, as this will include man-pages as well.
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>> Any thoughts?
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> I think it is a bad idea, because many people uses the Live CD's to
> install to their systems, and then they end up with a system
> without doc files, with no easy way to get the docs back on the systems.
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That's not true as anaconda needs the RPMs to install to a system,
right? Last time I checked a LiveCD could not be installed "offline"
because of this.
The Live CD installer just copy the whole system on the Live CD to the
local hard drive, and make some changes, it don't use any rpms.
Tim