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[Solved] can you remove the following TCEs from 14x please

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aus9:
Hi

Done by forum post in case someone else wants to take over maintainership. Please leave grim and slurp.

Can the following packages be removed from TC64 14x and at your discretion 12x and 13x.
grim-doc
slurp-doc
scdoc, -dev & -doc
wlroots & -dev
sway, -doc & -dot
swaylock & -doc

Yes I should have linked to online man pages instead of submitting  doc TCEs.

I plan to look for another wayland desktop that does not depend on wlroots.
Thanks for reading
Gordon

CNK:

--- Quote ---Yes I should have linked to online man pages instead of submitting doc TCEs.

--- End quote ---

Really? I like doc TCEs! There aren't enough of them IMHO. I've been caught out a few times looking at newer/older man pages online where details are different from the version available in Tiny Core and hence things go wrong and I have to check the "--help" ("-h"?) output to find out why. A -doc extension has the man pages for the actual version that's packaged - much better!

On my to-do list is to write a script that (a) checks for and downloads a -doc extension to supply the man page requested, (b) where no -doc extension is available (boo!), looks up various man page websites for the command, parses the HTML to find the version that the online man page covers, then tries to interpret the version number to find the closest match to the version of the program in Tiny Core.

Obviously (b) is much more complicated, but for lack of -doc extensions there's barely any point to writing (a) if (b) isn't there because it would be quicker on average just to jump over to a web browser in the first place (I've got five man page websites set up as Dillo search options).

OK rant over, but lack of -doc extensions is personally the thing that I dislike most about Tiny Core, so I hope it's not taken as official policy for people to leave them out.

aus9:
Hi CNK

TC submissions do accept docs but the wiki says

--- Quote ---rather than including docs in your extension, use the info file to list official online docs.
--- End quote ---

https://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:creating_extensions

until you get a better reply, it might assist the server load to not have docs?

Juanito:

--- Quote from: aus9 on April 02, 2023, 09:47:51 PM ---Can the following packages be removed from TC64 14x and at your discretion 12x and 13x.
grim-doc
slurp-doc
scdoc, -dev & -doc
wlroots & -dev
sway, -doc & -dot
swaylock & -doc

--- End quote ---

grim-doc, slurp-doc, scdoc-doc, sway-doc and swaylock-doc removed from 14.x repo - I prefer to keep the extensions themselves as someone will probably find them useful

mocore:

--- Quote from: CNK on April 02, 2023, 10:19:07 PM ---
--- Quote ---Yes I should have linked to online man pages instead of submitting doc TCEs.

--- End quote ---

Really? I like doc TCEs! There aren't enough of them IMHO. I've been caught out a few times looking at newer/older man pages online where details are different from the version available in Tiny Core and hence things go wrong and I have to check the "--help" ("-h"?) output to find out why. A -doc extension has the man pages for the actual version that's packaged - much better!
....
 I hope it's not taken as official policy for people to leave them out.

--- End quote ---

just read the above , posting to add  +1

docs are not (by default) bloat  :o wwwTF

+matching
source(version) & program(version) & docs(version)
*imho could be (in some cases) less of a pita

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