Re: apt trick

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Adding the --excludedocs option gets in the way of "apt-get remove".

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> This is for Mike808's benefit, but I figured the rest of you might be
> interested.
> 
> If you have a machine with a small disk, and you don't care about
> documentation (the stuff in /usr/share/doc as well as man pages), you
> can exclude the documentation when the packages are installed with the
> rpm command-line option "--excludedocs".  Of course, on an existing
> box, this doesn't help much, since in order to get rid of the
> documentation you would have to "upgrade" each package to the version
> already installed with "--excludedocs" on the command-line.
> 
> I thought of something though...  If you use apt-get on Red Hat, you
> can add the following to the "RPM" section of /etc/apt/apt.conf:
> 
>     Options {"--excludedocs";};
> 
> (You can probably just add that before the last "}" in the file.
> That's probably the right section.)
> 
> That still doesn't help with existing packages, but as you upgrade
> things, the documentation will magically disappear, and disk space
> will magically reappear.  :-)
> 
> Anyway, it's just a thought...
> 
> Steve
> 

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