root-doc subpackage slightly obese

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 19:19:46 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:24 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> I don't think we could just say don't package documentation that's
>> ridiculously large but perhaps we could make some sort of guideline about
>> not duplicating formats on extra large docs.  Is the case with root-docs
>> (and/or kdelibs-apidocs) that we have docs in text + html + tex + pdf
>> + your_format_here?
>
> The problem is that, at least for root-doc (not sure about
> kdelibs-apidocs), it's all html.
>
> Please note that I'm not saying "don't package documentation that's
> ridiculously large", but rather, "don't package automatically generated
> documentation that's ridiculously large".
>

Is it generated by doxygen? In that case, doxy files usually have
options to disable building certain portions of the documentation.

For example, when building a library package, we don't want the full
source documentation. We only want the documentation of the API the
library is exposing.

Orcan


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