[OM Cooker] Drop some outdated documentation packages

Colin Close itchka at compuserve.com
Tue Feb 9 17:44:34 EST 2016


Hi Tomek 
That's fine, I was under the impression that you wanted complete removal.
Best,
Colin

On Tuesday 09 Feb 2016 16:40:19 Tomasz Gajc wrote:
> Why to keep them in yet another place ?
>  We still provide src.rpm for these in openmandriva2013.0,
> openmandriva2014.0 repositories...
> 
> 2016-02-09 11:39 GMT+01:00 Jean-Claude Vanier <jclvanier at gmail.com>:
> 
> > I agree with Colin. How heavy are they?
> >
> > 2016-02-09 11:12 GMT+01:00 Colin Close <itchka at compuserve.com>:
> > > Hi,
> > > I don't have a problem with removing them from the repository but I do
> > wonder whether they should be archived somewhere. The reason? I hav written
> > quite  few manuals in my time and I have found thsat it is much easier to
> > get the job done if you have a template. Yes the content is out of date or
> > just plain wrong but the headings and sub-headings give a very good idea of
> > what needs to be written.
> > > They could be stored on the infra server with little impact.
> > > Best,
> > > Colin
> > >
> > > On Sunday 07 Feb 2016 23:31:14 Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> in our repositories there are:
> > >> https://abf.io/openmandriva/distro-doc
> > >> https://abf.io/openmandriva/howto-html-en
> > >> https://abf.io/openmandriva/howto-html-*
> > >>
> > >> Above packages are very outdated, howto-html are from 2008 and upstream
> > site
> > >> is dead www.linuxdoc.org
> > >> distro-doc is 2010 and it was provided by Mandriva.
> > >> These packages are not installed on any ISO, so basically they take
> > space on
> > >> repository, something around 100 MiB per arch.
> > >>
> > >> My suggestion is to completely drop these packages.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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