Hi Dumitru,
Dumitru Moldovan wrote on Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 10:58:25AM +0200:
> On 30.10.2017 00:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Cag wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 09:49:49PM +0000:
>>> man/info pages, pdf/html docs - in -doc;
>> Over my dead body. Software without documentation is completely
>> useless, almost a crime. Docs must always be available, even on
>> a tiny server. The sysadmin logs into the server, needs a brief
>> look at the docs to fix stuff -- and is slowed down because the
>> docs aren't there, and a web search turns up the wrong version,
>> and a wild goose chase ensues? No way.
> So true! I am that sysadmin and have such a system as a build slave
> among many others (~30 combinations of OS / distro / arch). I
> understand why it is built with docs separated in dedicated packages
> (it's Alpine Linux,
That's actually an interesting distro. :)
> designed originally for embedded stuff, where disk space really
> counts),
Right. When you design an operating system for a specific purpose,
some decisions might actually make sense that would be very bad
decisions in a general purpose system like OpenBSD or Debian.
> but it's so damn frustrating when I need to look
> up some of the differences.
On a build slave, i guess you do have the disk space to simply
install all the -doc packages for the packages you are using?
Sure, it's one additional step at install time, but certainly
better than lacking documentation in such a role.
> And it's a pretty eccentric Linux distro,
> with quite a lot of peculiarities.
I hope you don't count the use of mandoc among those. :-D
Yours,
Ingo
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