[solved] install package excluding 1 dependency

[jimg]

I'd like to install lilypond. It requires lilypond-doc, the lilypond documentation. lilypond-doc is nearly 1 GB and contains no documentation that isn't available online. (Last I checked it consists of .dvi files, which could easily be converted to much smaller .ps or .pdf files.) This dwarfs lilypond in size by a wide margin.

What's the cleanest way to install lilypond while excluding lilypond-doc?

And while I'm at it, how can I recommend that the lilypond package not require lilypond-doc, or that lilypond-doc use .pdf files? It's not really a bug, but....

Many thanks!

Jim Garrett

[Ken-Bergen]

I'd like to install lilypond. It requires lilypond-doc, the lilypond documentation. lilypond-doc is nearly 1 GB and contains no documentation that isn't available online. (Last I checked it consists of .dvi files, which could easily be converted to much smaller .ps or .pdf files.) This dwarfs lilypond in size by a wide margin.

What's the cleanest way to install lilypond while excluding lilypond-doc?

And while I'm at it, how can I recommend that the lilypond package not require lilypond-doc, or that lilypond-doc use .pdf files? It's not really a bug, but....

Many thanks!

Jim Garrett

From the command line as root

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urpmi --no-recommends lilypond

[jimg]

Thanks!

-Jim

[doktor5000]

And while I'm at it, how can I recommend that the lilypond package not require lilypond-doc, or that lilypond-doc use .pdf files? It's not really a bug, but....

Well, it does not require those.