From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13305 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2007 23:50:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 13296 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Nov 2007 23:50:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:50:56 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA7NmEpN022728; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:48:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA7NmDYA020060; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:48:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:50:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200711072348.lA7NmDYA020060@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: eliz@gnu.org CC: brooks@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:22:39 +0200) Subject: Re: [patch][gdb,etc] Add configure option to disable building internal documentation. References: <4730F626.806@codesourcery.com> <47321064.5040306@codesourcery.com> Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00150.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:22:39 +0200 > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:22:12 -0800 > > From: Brooks Moses > > CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > > > If that was set up with "make install-pdf", there will be > > four or five manuals in there -- three of which are irrelevant to their > > needs, and which they don't want. And it's not entirely obvious which > > one the user wants to look at first, if they are unfamiliar with GDB and > > have a question they want to find an answer to. That seems confusing to > > me, and is clutter in the sense that that's a considerable quantity of > > bloat in the package size and its disk-space requirements that is > > essentially pointless. > > I really don't feel we are entitled to second-guess the user's needs. > The manuals that come with GDB are all useful one way or the other; > it's up to the user to remove those she knows she will never need. > > > Add up the sizes of the pdf, info, and html files, and the space > > usage is considerable. > > Actually, I doubt it's considerable by modern standards, but even if > it is, why would someone want to install all 3 formats by default? > You only need one (any one). Seconded. My biggest gripe about Linux these days is the insane subdivision in subpackages just to save a few megabytes of disk space.