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From: Guillermo Rodriguez <guille.rodriguez@gmail.com>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Feature Request: Option to install man pages
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:59:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F8532E.1060605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F6E22E.3080209@gmx.net>

Hi all,

El 04/03/2015 a las 11:45, Carsten Schlote escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> right now I found a problem, when I try to encourage people to use
> ptxdist for private or commercial projects - the lack of man pages.
> 
> 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.
[...]
> 
> Your opinions?

I'm not sure what's the point in having the man pages in an embedded
system -- it is not supposed to be a development environment.

Anyway there are many many embedded systems that still have just
"a few MB" of flash so if this is done, please make it optional.

Guillermo Rodriguez

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-04 10:45 Carsten Schlote
2015-03-04 12:14 ` Rüdiger, Christoph
2015-03-04 18:40 ` Bruno Thomsen
2015-03-04 19:18 ` Alexander Dahl
2015-03-05 12:59 ` Guillermo Rodriguez [this message]

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