On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro wrote:
I fail to understand why would you need the man pages on a server. I do not install ANY doc ( no man, no /usr/share/doc ) on any server since 2008 and I never ever felt a need for change. You need to read a man page ? Fine! Install it in the client you ssh from. Or read it online from that same client
Sorry for replying to this message again, but I had delivery disabled for this mailing list and didn't get the later messages. Anyway, it doesn't really afect my point.
What you feel is not a problem because one can google for the proper information, can be a real annoyance for other people for any number of reasons. If you prefer to remove documentation from your installs, it's pretty easy to do so just by deleting a couple of directories. Not so with going the other way around.
If we were talking about an installer option defaulting to "--excludedocs" but just as easy to uncheck, I'd wouldn't even argue with you. But this is a pre-built image with this choice set in stone. The "other way around" here amounts to almost a full image rebuild.
Besides, this change happened from one 7.4 image to the next. I rebased one of my test enviroments from 1708.01 and suddenly man pages were gone with no quick way to get them back.
Best regards,