[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] Handbooks - the lot

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/4/11 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
> Στις 11/04/2012 19:11:55 Wolfgang Bornath γράψατε:
>> 2012/4/11 Dimitrios Glentadakis <dglent at gmail.com>:
>> > Στις 11/04/2012 16:05:23 γράψατε:
>> >> * I am not at home, actually  how much space they take ? For what kind of
>> >> size we are talking about ?
>> >
>> > The /usr/share/doc/HTML/en folder has a size of 43.5 MiB, which even now if it takes a lot of place anyone can delete this folder from his system.
>>
>> We are not talking about deleting data from the harddisk. We are
>> talking about installing and uninstalling, not just deleting. The
>> issue is to avoid the installation (if not wanted) and consequently
>> avoid updates.
>>
>> I expected the discussion about the technical options to be quite long
>> and not at all trivial, I did not expect such a discussion about the
>> "why". There are valid use cases which answer the "why" quite clear
>> and simple.
>>
>>
>
> I dont understand very well.

Yes, I see.

> - We dont have a lot of space so we want to be able to uninstall some software and it has to be the documentation as the most unwanted ?
> - We want for a question of free choice to be able to choose if we want the documentation to be installed or not ? but this has to be the same for all kde software and dependencies, why is the documentation the problem.

We have been talking about handbooks because they are single packages
(not included in the software package) which are not needed/wanted by
everybody and they are not necessary to run the software.

> Dont forget that is a part of KDE and it has a global shortcut F1 to access it. If there is a case that it will be not available until the user install it in a additionally way, it breaks the upstream software.

The important word in your sentence is "if". This does not apply to
simple applications like kcalc or some simple games or whatever you
may regard as "simple apps". And as said before: it does not break the
upstream software.

> It is truth that i spend a lot of time to translate documentation, and i do it with love, so it is normal that i have a preference in their existence in the system; certainly i cannot use this argument here.

Yes, you have to live with that like we all have to. I already said that.

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wobo