On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 08:28:10 -0800 (PST) Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it completely safe to simply 'rm -rf' certain > directories in /usr/share/doc? > > i've noticed that /usr/share/doc takes up the largest > disk space in my /usr partition and i hardly ever read > any doc in it, since i can almost always find the doc > somewhere in the net. and some packages even have the > same doc in different languages taking up even more > space. it would be nice if apt-get has an option to > not install files destined for /usr/share/doc/<package>.
Many times, there will be specific doc packages, i.e. this output from "dpkg -l | grep doc" : gnome-db-doc gnome-dev-doc gnome-doc-tools gnumeric-doc kernel-doc-2.2.20 kernel-doc-2.4.17 multi-gnome-terminal-doc phpdoc wine-doc Have you removed all of them, 1st? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Edell ! +------------------------------------------------------------+
