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2008-11-29 , 04:01
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One of the most in-comprehendible aspects of the OS is something called DocPurge. This daemon (well named) seems to obliterate all efforts to install useful system and application documentation. For example it wipes any attempt to install Linux man files as well as /usr/share/doc files.

If Nokia's software incompetence were not already well established, this decision would do it.

Nokia's online man pages are pathetic, and finding some way to install them would be pointless. However some application developers have displayed professional competence by writing useful help.ncd files for /usr/share/doc.

Does any know how would one go about installing these files?

For you software writers at Nokia, you are not professionally competent until you consistantly write clear and complete documentation for everything you write. Until then you are amatures.

Yes Private Aunt Tilly, it is fun.

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2008-11-29 , 04:07
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I think it is for saving space. Not really any other explanation. What documentation do you need? Could you not just view the files on the computer?
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2008-11-29 , 04:56
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Until then you are amatures.
amateurs.

I love irony.
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2008-11-29 , 06:49
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Yuck, I think that commenting on an isolated typo is not clever, regardless of the justification. For one thing, it's been done zillions of time before by self-satisfied idiots, too many times to win the brilliancy prize.
 

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2008-11-29 , 07:41
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Can you please submit an enhancement request at http://bugs.maemo.org so we can discuss pros and cons in the right place? Thank you.
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2008-11-29 , 08:28
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"If Nokia's software incompetence were not already well established, this decision would do it."

Saying things like that prove yours too.
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2008-11-29 , 08:33
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Originally Posted by oldmancoyote1 View Post
For you software writers at Nokia, you are not professionally competent until you consistantly write clear and complete documentation for everything you write. Until then you are amatures.
Hmm, I see this as more of an irony:

#! /bin/sh

# Copyright (C) 2006 Nokia Corporation.
#
# Contact: Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer AT nokia.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
# 02110-1301 USA

# Real hackers don't read docs.
#
PURGE="/usr/share/doc/ /usr/share/man/ /usr/share/info/"

for d in $PURGE; do
rm -rf $d
mkdir $d
echo "Purged by docpurge" >$d/README
done
 

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2008-11-29 , 08:45
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@qwerty12: That is absolutely full of win.

@oldmancoyote1: If they didn't purge docs they wouldn't have room for locales. If they included both they wouldn't have room for very many 3rd party apps or user files. Purging docs is a well established practice in embedded systems: Anyone smart enough to tinker with it can figure out where the documentation is.

<random rambling><wishful thinking>Might be nice to have a modified version of man that reads man pages from an SD card. Also might be nice to have a .tar.gz that can be unpacked to recover the stuff that docpurge kills and an accompanying script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
dpkg --purge docpurge && tar zxvf -C / docs.tar.gz
 

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2008-11-29 , 09:41
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Can you please submit an enhancement request at http://bugs.maemo.org so we can discuss pros and cons in the right place? Thank you.
can someone say "fixed in fremantle"?
 

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2008-11-29 , 10:51
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Originally Posted by tso View Post
can someone say "fixed in fremantle"?
vicious, wicked, evil creature!
 
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