size of root-doc is enormous

[Genes MailLists]

This package ( part of the 'root' package suite - which is
inappropriately named given the special meaning of root on unix/linux)

is 500 to 600 MiB.

Really ? wow ...

yum info root-doc:

This package contains the automatically generated ROOT class
            : documentation.

Curious - why is thing so large ?

And if its automatically generated, can it be generated on the client
instead of propogating thru mirrors?

yum info root:

Description : The ROOT system provides a set of object oriented
frameworks with
            : all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large
amounts
            : of data in a very efficient way. Having the data defined
as a set
            : of objects, specialized storage methods are used to get direct
            : access to the separate attributes of the selected objects,
without
            : having to touch the bulk of the data. Included are
histogramming
            : methods in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions, curve fitting, function
            : evaluation, minimization, graphics and visualization
classes to
            : allow the easy setup of an analysis system that can query and
            : process the data interactively or in batch mode.

...

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Genes MailLists  wrote:
> This package ( part of the 'root' package suite - which is
> inappropriately named given the special meaning of root on unix/linux)

Nothing can be done about that, it is the name of the project.
http://root.cern.ch/drupal/
> is 500 to 600 MiB.
>
> Really ? wow ...
>
> yum info root-doc:
>
> This package contains the automatically generated ROOT class
>            : documentation.
>
> Curious - why is thing so large ?
>
> And if its automatically generated, can it be generated on the client
> instead of propogating thru mirrors?

You can see the maintainer's comments on this bug.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621812