Split all documentation into their own packages

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Mon Sep 27 07:50:03 UTC 2010


Hello Gonsole,

Gonsolo [2010-09-27  2:57 +0200]:
> I own a web server with tight space (1GB). Over 300MB are in /usr,
> over 25MB in /usr/share/doc. I'd like to remove all files in
> /usr/share/doc but unfortunately it is not as easy as removing all
> -doc packages.

You can do that relatively easily in Maverick thanks to a new dpkg
feature:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReducingDiskFootprint#Drop%20unnecessary%20files

Martin
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