[Bug 391528] Re: texlive-base contains documentation that should be in texlive-doc-base

[Norbert Preining]

On Fr, 03 Jul 2009, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> I really appreciate the split of the doc packages. But I don't see how
> my bug report is related to that.
> 
> What I am reporting is that there are still some megabytes of
> documentation left in a non-documentation package. I think the fix is
> simply to move these files to the appropriate doc sub-package or, if
> none seems appropriate, in texlive-doc-base.

You are wrong.

texlive-doc-base is NOT the splitted off doc files from texlive-base.

Look: there is
	texlive-latex-extra    ->    texlive-latex-extra-doc
        texlive-graphics       ->    texlive-graphics-doc
and there is
        texllive-base
but NO texlive-base-doc!

texlive-base-doc is NOT equal to texlive-doc-base.

We be decision did NOT split off the documentation files of texlive-base
into a separate package, out of a very simple reason, the size of the
docfiles are just so small that it is irrelevant.

Compare the sizes of the other *-doc (not *-doc-*!!) packages with the
size of the doc files in texlive-base.

So what is there is by decision.

If you have no better reasoning to support splitting doc files of
telxive-base off then "left in a non-documentation package" then it will
not happen. Simply because there is NO "non-documentation package",
there are just packages, some contain the documentation, some are split
off. ANd the selection which have been split off was based on a
reasonable percentage between normal files and docfiles.

Enough time spent explaining things that are easy to be found by
searching (eg that texlive-doc-base is built from texlive-doc source,
so it cannot contain the docfiles from texlive-base which is built from
texlive-base!), back to real work.


Norbert

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