On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:30:22 -0700
Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 17:49 -0400, Kurt B. Kaiser wrote:
> > Oscar Estrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Maybe we should build all packages with their respective documentation,
> > > and just modify pacman so that that it can ignore or install the files
> > > in: /usr/share/info and /usr/share/doc, for example:
> > >
> > > pacman -S --documented gcc
> > >
> > > or add an option to pacman.conf like:
> > >
> > > InstallInfos = Yes
> > >

[snip]


> A few problems though:
>  - what's installed on the system is no longer just what's in the
> package
>  - all packages will be larger (even if you don't install the docs, you
> still have to download them in the compressed file)
>  - pacman needs a bunch of additions (including whether you wanted docs
> for a particular package or not... wouldn't want a pacman -Syu to not
> install the docs for gcc after you asked for them once already)
> 
> Jason
> 
> -- 
> If you understand, things are just as they are.  If you do not
> understand, things are just as they are.

Of the suggestions so far, I see "pacman -S --documented" as the clearly
best, truly like this one :)

You could then also add a line to the pacman info database, e.g. "pacman -Qi
python" would produce something like this:

Name           : python
Version        : 2.4.1-1
Groups         : None
Packager       : Arch Linux (http://www.archlinux.org)
URL            : http://www.python.org
License        : 
Documented     : Yes
...

 nicke

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