size of root-doc is enormous

[suvayu ali]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> 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

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