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It is 305MB, far larger than any other package's documentation. People who want this can always get it from the web.
Ed
Just out of curiosity you should have made it a poll. It might not (but it could I suppose) sway PV to remove the docs, but it would be interesting to see how more people feel about it. Something like yes, no, don't care. I don't really care either way, but I think that 300+ MB for rust docs that is only used by one package (Firefox?) is a little much.
Is that all, Ed? That's nothing!! What's the concern?
John
The size-to-usefulness ratio is all out-of-whack. The one person who uses the documentation can download it from the web. Everyone else gets 300MB more disk space.
My oldest computer has a 100GB disk. I pared down everything on that machine.
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Originally Posted by Skaendo
Just out of curiosity you should have made it a poll. It might not (but it could I suppose) sway PV to remove the docs, but it would be interesting to see how more people feel about it. Something like yes, no, don't care. I don't really care either way, but I think that 300+ MB for rust docs that is only used by one package (Firefox?) is a little much.
What's the fuss? From the Changelog for Slackware 64-14.2:
Code:
Thu Sep 6 05:28:05 UTC 201
...
patches/packages/rust-1.28.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz: Added.
Since Rust is now a requirement to compile Firefox and Thunderbird we
are adding it here. Unless you will need to recompile those (or need to
compile other code written in Rust), it is an optional addition.
So, if you don't need Rust, just don't install it. And if it's not installed a further upgrade shouldn't be proposed by <your preferred package management tool>.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 09-16-2018 at 05:50 PM.
What's the fuss? From the Changelog for Slackware 64-14.2:
Code:
Thu Sep 6 05:28:05 UTC 201
...
patches/packages/rust-1.28.0-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz: Added.
Since Rust is now a requirement to compile Firefox and Thunderbird we
are adding it here. Unless you will need to recompile those (or need to
compile other code written in Rust), it is an optional addition.
So, if you don't need Rust, just don't install it. And if it's not installed a further upgrade shouldn't be proposed by <your preferred package management tool>.
I am running -current. Rust is recommended and installed if one uses the default options.
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