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Subject: Re: Why does installing icedtea-1.13.12 install the docs and jdk, too?
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:32:59 -0400
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To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 04:57:12PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Am 16.09.2016 um 16:49 schrieb ng0:
> > They are not separated
> > like for example Debian does it with their -dev version packages.
> > For the exact reasons someone else has to explain. I guess it's
> > something about grafting, reproducibility, source provision etc.
> 
> This is what the docs say about this;
> 
>     Sometimes it is more appropriate to separate the various types of files
>     produced from a single source package into separate outputs.  For
>     instance, the GLib C library (used by GTK+ and related packages)
>     installs more than 20 MiB of reference documentation as HTML pages.
>     To *save space* for users who do not need it, the documentation goes
>     to a
>     separate output, called @code{doc}.  [...]
> 
>     Some packages install programs with different ``dependency footprints''.
>     […] This allows users
>     who do not need the GUIs to *save space*.  […]
> 
> For me this sound more like a bug. But maybe someone can explain this.

Whether it's a bug or not, it sounds like the situation could be
improved. Can you file a bug report?