From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Mar 5 01:18:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA13020 for ports-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA13008 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id KAA18922; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:16:41 +0100 Message-Id: <199603050916.KAA18922@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: doc directory To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 10:16:40 +0100 (MET) From: "Thomas Gellekum" Cc: thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, adam@veda.is, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603050849.AAA11136@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Mar 5, 96 00:49:43 am Organization: Institut f. Hochfrequenztechnik, RWTH Aachen X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Satoshi Asami wrote: > > > * I think we also proposed a new variable in /etc/make.conf, > * something like ${NOPORTDOCS). Porters could then conditionalize the > * installation of additional docs by > > Um, we can do that too, but is this really necessary? I just don't > see the need of putting this in just to save a little bit of space. > > Unless we are advocating putting 100K ps files and such in the ports > doc dir.... Well, I have the latest icon src at home, and there are a few 100K of docs going with it. Or elk, where all the important bits are buried in the tarball. I don't think it's unreasonable to install the stuff if you think about some ports' info files: thomas:134) du /usr/local/lib/xemacs-19.13/info/ 6144 /usr/local/lib/xemacs-19.13/info/ The number is in KBytes. tg