Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de> wrote:
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>
> > 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
Hi Ingo,
That's cool… I didn't realize at a time, so I guess mandoc does its job
in Alpine Linux as brilliantly as in OpenBSD. Congrats!
In regards to installing -doc packages in Alpine, it wasn't such a big
deal once I realized the problem. Disk space is not an issue on that
build slave either. I think in retrospect the biggest frustration was
realizing where the missing doc files are. I don't remember
encountering that on other OS'es / distros, for good reason.
<rant>
BTW, great little distro, I enjoyed Alpine quite a lot. And trying to
be security-conscious, I believe immunity through diversity is a thing
in the software world as well. The more diverse the kernels, C, TLS
libs etc., the better (hurray to standards!). I wonder if Alpine will
survive in current form the 2017 "privatization" of the (GPL!) grsec
patch, though. I, for one, have decided to completely switch to OpenBSD
as a direct consequence of it (from Hardened Gentoo). So far, enjoying
contributing to a more diverse world! ;-]
</rant>
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