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On 2002-02-21, Stepan Roh <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Why? Generating pretty documentation at the time of compiling seems like
> > > bad idea to me anyway. Only maintainers generating WIPs and CVS users
> > > (which should be experienced users anyway) will be forced to install
> > > necessary tools.
> >
> > So why are we still doing it?
>
> Who knows? Because noone wants to change it?
There are lots of useful formats around, but no-one uses all of them.
Putting everything in the main package increases the download size,
splitting documentation into separate packages is annoying (for
users). Downloading extra stuff to generate docs is annoying too.