root-doc subpackage slightly obese

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 19:56 +0300, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> 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".
> 

grumble.

Thank you for noting this.

Jonathan, - dish this to fesco and/or the Packaging Committee - it's a
good point.

-sv