Re: apt trick

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

This was something that I had been wondering about, so I'm glad to see 
these notes. Is there a way to have the documentation not installed by the 
standard redhat installation or upgrade? 

eks

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 10:09:10PM -0500, mike808 wrote:
> > Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any "package-specific options" 
> > ability for either apt or RPM. While removing the docs for some of the 
> > software I never use, I am interested in keeping *some* of it.
> 
> That would be a problem.  I suppose you could comment and uncomment
> the line in apt.conf as appropriate.  It'd be a pain, but it would
> work.
> 
> On the box I was working on when I thought of that, I really couldn't
> care less if I have any docs, compilers, or much of anything else that
> makes the system usable.  That's not its purpose.  That made it an
> easy decision...
> 
> Unfortunately, when I thought of that, I had just finished upgrading
> everything (except two packages) to Red Hat 7.3, so it'll take a while
> to get rid of the excess.
> 
> Steve
> 

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