Today the rust-docs package is a required component. Now that rustup supports component installation it can be made optional. This change needs to be done in rust-buildbot.
I think it should still be default. Nobody wants to discover at the airport that they should have included just one more rustup incantation.
Very duplicate-ish of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24117
@brson why exactly changing defaults in rustup is not enough? Doesn鈥檛 it already download the separate packages? It seems to me like it should be as easy as flipping a boolean somewhere in rustup.
Making the docs component optional, but still installed by default seems like the way to go forward here; that should avoid the missing docs at airport problem, but still allow those who don't want docs to not have to download them.
This was done, and then undone, so I'm going to close.
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I think it should still be default. Nobody wants to discover at the airport that they should have included just one more rustup incantation.