[Sugar-devel] excludedocs

[Grant Bowman]

On a machine with only 1G SSD I understand why it is necessary to
exclude documentation.

In starting development and using an XO-1.5 "dogfood style" I find the
lack of documentation troublesome.  Online documentation is not a true
substitute as this excludedocs setting effects more than just man
pages that may or may not be useful for the version that is installed
on the local machine.  CHANGELOGs and READMEs are also important.
Documentation of how best to use --includedocs might also help.  I
don't put much weight in the arguments that "they" won't need docs.
Anyone climbing any Unix learning curve needs them quite early and
especially in the beginning.  Anyone using Unix regularly still looks
up less frequently used command line options from time to time.

For XO 1.5s and for SOAS is there a relatively easy way to change
/etc/rpm/macros.imgcreate to remove the excludedocs line?  I am sure
this has been discussed before.  Where can I catch up on previous
conversations?

Regards,

Grant Bowman
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