root-doc subpackage slightly obese

[Jonathan Dieter]

So I'm syncing up our school's local mirror over our rather slow
internet connection and I notice that the root-doc subpackage (which is
part of the root package) has just hit the slightly obese size of 687MB
[1].  For reference, the root source rpm is 27MB [2].

Now, I don't know if we have a policy for autogenerated documentation,
but this seems a bit over the top to me, especially since the 20153
files in this package seem to have increased the size of
filelists.xml.gz by 200KB (this is a guess based on the fact that that's
how much filelists.xml.gz has increased in the last push).

So now I've added root-docs to my manual rsync excludes (which only had
kdelibs-apidocs in it before now).

Can we have a guideline added to the packaging guidelines that basically
says, "Make sure autogenerated documentation isn't ridiculously large".

Jonathan "I need to go on a diet" Dieter

[1] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2101751
[2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2101735
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