On my drive, texlive documentation and system documentation takes way too much space.
Is there a clean way to remove them?
Is there a dnf (yum) setting to specify that I do not want documentation?
Actually, I use the man pages for CLI commands, but for many other packages, I look online, and not on installed documentation.
Thanks in advance!
Like yum before, dnf can pass transaction flags when invoking rpm (although this is not documented, user beware!)
This is done with the *tsflags" option. There would be two approaches:
tsflags=nodocs to the [main] section of /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. To incidentally install packages with documentation, append --setopt='tsflags=' .dnf install supernova --setopt='tsflags=nodocs'.To add or remove pacakged documentation at any time, you can reinstall a package with the flags set accordingly. If you set the flags globally in dnf.conf but decided you really did want manpages for core utilities, you might do dnf reinstall coreutils --setopt='tsflags=' to get them back.
Absence of documentation should never affect the function of a package; if you find otherwise, please file a bug against that package.
You could try to identify documentation packages with the following command:
$ rpm -qa | grep "\-doc\-"
But be careful with which packages you remove!
HTH,
Germán.
Look under /usr/share/doc
du -hs *
identify the package owner:
rpm -qif /usr/share/doc/dirname/filename
remove the unneeded package.
PS. be careful, not all documentation is in separate packages
Asked: 2015-10-07 07:28:53 -0500
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Last updated: Oct 08 '15
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