apt trick

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

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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