Re: Announce: ELE-0.0.2 released

[Peter Palfrader <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jens Kubieziel wrote:

> * Thomas Sjögren schrieb am 2005-03-23 um 23:31 Uhr:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:18:50PM +0100, Jens Kubieziel wrote:
> > > * Thomas Sjögren schrieb am 2005-03-23 um 20:23 Uhr:
> > > > Changelog for 0.0.2 (050323)
> > > > - Removed man-files and documentation. Waste of space
> > > 
> > > Well, I like to look at a manpage if there is something I want to know.
> > > IMHO manpages and docu shouldn't be removed.
> > 
> > Since ELE is pretty much useless without a Internet connection I see no
> > reason to use up loads of space when most man pages can be found at
> > pages like http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man
> 
> Your last image was about 66M. A typical iso image is about 660M. So I
> don't understand why you delete documentation while having so much space
> left.
> Being able to read documentation right away (without firing up a search
> engine) is IMHO worth that few mega bytes.

Even more so if you're _trying_ to get online :)

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