Bug 1192625

Summary: --excludedocs leaves empty directories in /usr/share/doc
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
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Description David Cantrell 2015-02-13 21:11:52 UTC 
Installing a new system and using the --excludedocs option in a kickstart file's %packages section does keep docs off the system.  But it leaves empty directories all through /usr/share/doc.

The --excludedocs option for %packages is passed down to rpm's --excludedocs option.  I am not sure if this is desired behavior as it seems every file marked with %doc in the spec files was removed, but I would also expect the empty directories to be removed as well.  Especially given that rpm created that tree in the first place for the files marked with %doc