[Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

[Oliver Burger]

Am 10.03.2012 23:46, schrieb Juan Luis Baptiste:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Juergen Harms<Juergen.Harms at unige.ch>  wrote:
>> The principal reason why I did this post is the amount (and lack of control)
>> of kde handbooks automatically downloaded, painful for users with low
>> bandwidth; that these users need awareness of the bandwidth constraint has
>> been stated in many threads of this ML. Can this be improved? - certainly
>> not an issue for Beta 2.
>>
>
> Right now, the splitting of the handbook packages will use the same
> bandwidth as before. As Anssi said, before the handbooks came bundled
> with the owner package, so they were also being installed. So
> bandwidth wise, is still the same as before the splitting.
>
I haven't looked into it, but perhaps we could install those handbooks 
as Suggests instead of Requires (or is it already done that way?).
Then people wanting to save bandwidth could just install using 
"--no-suggests".

Oliver