Re: noarch and repo's

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:37:59 -0800
Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi Kevin,
>  
>  My question is OT, but just curious.
>  
>  On Sunday 26 December 2010 03:22 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>  > Frankly the root-doc package is a bad idea, IMHO, but the maintainer
>  > disagrees:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621812
>  >
>  
>  Why is it a bad idea? I thought the maintainer explained why it can't
>  be generated during install. And the other suggestion about removing
>  the source documentation also doesn't seem feasible to me. (I am a
>  ROOT user and I have to use those quite often) 
Well, it's a gigantic package and the base package changes somewhat
regularly. I would personally try and work with upstream to either come
up with another way of making the docs available, or some way to at
least decouple them from the source they don't have to update every
time, or the like. 

At it's worst this was causing every fedora mirror to use up at least
2,800MB of space, which is nothing to sneeze at. 

>  PS: I had no idea that ROOT was finally accepted in Fedora! I was the
>
>  one who made the first request when Rahul was collecting the names of 
>  requested packages. I was even CC'd on the original RFE. Wonder why I 
>  didn't get the notification when it was approved :-o. Thanks for 
>  bringing it to my attention. :) 
;)

kevin