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A policy on how to choose the installed documentation formats.

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ng0 <ng0 <at> we.make.ritual.n0.is>

Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:32:02 UTC

Severity: minor

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> we.make.ritual.n0.is>
To: GUIX Bugs <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: A policy on how to choose the installed documentation formats.
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:21:48 +0000
I don't think we have what this thread talks about covered in the
manual.

If we do have though, consider this bug obsolete.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00603.html

> > Info > HTML > man > txt > PDF > PS ?

> Roughly, yes.


Not the same message, but in the thread:

>     What about installing only HTML?
>
>     I find that HTML (and Info, and man) is more convenient to read on-line
>     than PDFs.  We rarely include PDF documentation in packages.
>
>     Of course, avoiding PDF/PS/DVI allows us to remove the dependency
>     on TeX Live.  Last, from discussions I heard at the Reproducible
>     Build Summit, I think DVIs and maybe PS/PDFs are not
>     bit-reproducible out-of-the-box.
>
>     WDYT?
>
>     Maybe we should have a policy on how to choose the installed
>     documentation formats.
>
>     Ludo’.
                    
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