Re: [Rule-list] Installing RPM without docs

[Marco Fioretti]

Welcome back, Martin!

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 23:15:43 at 11:15:43PM +0200, Martin Stricker wrote:
> 
> Sounds good. One maybe quite stupid addition: I don't know what RPM
> throws out as docs when told so. If it even trashes the man and info
> pages there should be three options:
> What do you want to to about software documentation? [default
> "recommended"]
> 1) Remove it completely. Warning: There won't even man pages be left!
> 2) Recommended usage: Keep only man and info pages.
> 3) Keep all the documentation.
> 
Good point...

The problem is that the man pages of several commands (look at mutt)
are little more than pointers to files in /usr/share/docs, or
something like that. It's hard to figure it out once and for all...

Don't have a definite answer (or opinion...). I was playing with the
concept of placing all the docs (man/info page included) on a CD
and hacking the man/info programs to say: "please insert the cdrom
first" when you type "man somecommand", but this is definitely not for
now...

        CIao,
                Marco Fioretti 
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