[Frugalware-devel] docs-extra 'group'

[Gabriel C]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 12:10:05AM +0200, Gabriel C <crazy at frugalware.org> wrote:
>> so users could simply install the whole docs-extra group or
>> 'my-gtk-docs' as group or just packages from there.
> 
> sure, the ability to do a pacman -S kde-docs (which would install
> kdebase-docs, kdelibs-docs, etc) is a good idea imho. kde-docs can't be
> a primary group of course.

Yes and that is the problem.

> 
> regrading docs-extra, i'm not sure. we currently have kdelibs-docs (err,
> kde-apidox) in kde-extra, gnome-user-docs in gnome (could be
> gnome-extra, just an example). 

Isn't exactly this mess I try to solve ?:)

Well the -docs should _not_ have gnome-extra , kde-extra, xfce-extra , xapps-extra etc as primary group that's the point.

> creating a new primary category just for
> being able to pacman -S docs-extra (nobody will ever do so) sounds a bit
> unnecessary to me. of course if others want, feel free to do it. i don't
> say it's bad, just a bit unnecessary

No the goal of having a docs-extra group is to 'not' bloat the -extra groups ,
the users still doesn't need these docs by default whatever main or -extra *and* 'saving'
space on CD's/DVD's and *later* on HDD after an _default_ install.

( you can now put docs-extra as last group so you have it on last CD / DVD2 :p which you can't do right now at all )

Being able to do pacman -S docs-extra is a nice site effect but not the main reason of the group.


crazy