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I was expecting some comment on the fact that man pages, a point of pride for the BSDs, are not included by default in Alpine. That's one of the reasons that ke
by sebtron 2y ago
I was expecting some comment on the fact that man pages, a point of pride for the BSDs, are not included by default in Alpine. That's one of the reasons that kept me from using it on my travel laptop (now running OpenBSD).
Alpine users, am I missing some configuration option to make sure all documentation is always installed when getting a package? Or is manually installing the -doc package every time the only way?
- stock_toaster 2y agoIf you always want docs, you just install the `docs` meta package that will pull in any `*-doc` package for anything else you install.
- sebtron 2y agoThanks, that's exactly what I needed!
- chupasaurus 2y agoIt works similarly in i.e. Debian, so it's not really a quirk of Alpine.
- oarsinsync 2y agoCan you elaborate on what you mean here? I’ve never seen a Debian install packages without docs in 20 years. What have I been doing right/wrong?
- hedora 2y agoIf you use a `-slim` debian docker image variant, it won't have the manpages (or most locales, and apt will be stripped down, etc, etc). I think you can achieve the same thing on bare metal by being careful to tell it not to install a bunch of base package sets. Alpine is more container-focused than debian, so I imagine they default to something closer to `-slim`, but I haven't tried installing it on bare metal or in a VM.
- bradfa 2y agoThe "manpages" and any "locale" packages are neither required nor important so are not included in a Debian minbase install. If you want them, you can install them easily with apt. I'm not sure what you mean by apt being stripped down. You get the normal apt still.
- marcosdumay 2y agoOn Debian some packages come with the manual, but have the info-pages as a *-doc (like coreutils), some packages come with basic manual and have extra ones on the doc package (like linux-image), some packages have no documentation at all on the main package (AFAIK nothing on the minimal installation), and some packages bundle everything.
- chupasaurus 2y agoAnd *-doc packages are not required for their main counterparts.
- hyper_cube 2y agoThis was going to be my inquiry, thanks!
- MrDrMcCoy 2y agoOpenBSD on a laptop? How is the hardware support?
- sebtron 2y agoOn this specific laptop, eveything works. It's a 2010 Asus netbook though.