size of root-doc is enormous

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 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.

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