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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
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To: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: doc directory
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Thomas Gellekum wrote:

> 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/

Info files oughta be where info can find them, but fixing a DIR file 
could be a chore.  But I have to agree, glomming onto those big ps (or 
even plain text files) that a number of our ports have is exactly what I 
was thinking about.

> 
> The number is in KBytes.
> 
> tg
> 

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