Hei hei,

Am 04.03.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Carsten Schlote:
> I know, it is intentional to save precious memory on embedded devices
> with usually small flash devices storing the firmware. 'Small' ment
> something in the few MB range running compressed MTD filesystems.
> 
> The ability to create small rootfs images was basically my primary
> reason to use ptxdist many years ago, when I had just 32 MB of flash for
> all and everything.

And this is still the case. The main device we use ptxdist for (and
probably will for the next years) has 32 MB RAM and 256 MB Flash with an
actual root partition of around 40 MB.

> So I would like to propose to add some global switch to the ptxdist
> configuration, which optionally allows users to install docs. Docs
> usually mean man pages, but options for info or similar would be fine,
> too. And of course a set of macros for the targetinstall stage, which
> conditionally picks up man pages at the usual places, when enabled.

[…]

> Your opinions?

Please make it optional.

Greets
Alex