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loziniak

Member

From: Warsaw, Poland

Registered: 2012-06-11

Posts: 10

excessive documentation in some packages

Hello.

Today I ran out of space on my root partition. I scanned it in search of stuff to delete, and I found that some packages are installed with all the documentation. To name two, there is a 146 megabytes worth /usr/share/gtk-doc folder and 42 megabytes /usr/share/doc/libmwaw.

Is this really needed in a "ligtweight" distribution? Couldn't there be two packages - libmwaw and libmwaw-doc? I have 200MB of documentation in /usr/share/doc, what for?

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: excessive documentation in some packages

Arch isn't meant to be especially light.

Please open a feature request in the bug tracker, preferably with a working PKGBUILD attached. Even if your request is denied, you can upload them to the AUR.

$ find /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/ -type d | wc -l
43

Splitting that many packages isn't going to happen. The biggest offenders on my 32-bit installation are gtk3, gtk2 and pygtk with 22, 18 and 12 MB of documentation respectively.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,553

Re: excessive documentation in some packages

If you don't want it, NoExtract in pacman.conf is always an option. I'm doing that on my USB installation.