[Nix-dev] Re: Git expression

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

pjotr2008 at thebird.nl (Pjotr Prins) writes:

> Funny, I cannot find the generated docs. It takes 3/4 of the
> build time, but does not install (that I can find).

It's under $out/share/{info,man}.

As far as size is concerned:

  $ du -ks /nix/store/159q0xkg9g0vfzs08n3aa2z6g2mrjabr-git-1.5.5/share/{info,man}
  202     /nix/store/159q0xkg9g0vfzs08n3aa2z6g2mrjabr-git-1.5.5/share/info
  39      /nix/store/159q0xkg9g0vfzs08n3aa2z6g2mrjabr-git-1.5.5/share/man

So I don't think it's an issue.

As far as build time is concerned: hopefully, the build farm will do the
job for you.  ;-)

In addition, using Git without documentation turns out to be pretty
difficult (most commands invoke `man' when run with `--help').

Thus, I'm against removing the documentation, or even making it
optional.

Thanks,
Ludovic.