Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:05:31 +0200 From: "Andy Kosela" <andy.kosela@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, andy.kosela@gmail.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Message-ID: <3cc535c80707220805i1a7acafapeb547c728ad5e5d8@mail.gmail.com>
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Doug Barton wrote: > What I think would be more useful (and again, I'm speaking only for > myself) would be a list of tools available with a brief description of > each, and links to outside sources (web pages, pkg-descr files, etc.) > where an interested user can get more information. I do think that > letting our users know that there are tools available is a good thing, > I don't think mini-manuals for each tool is appropriate in that context. > > If anyone else thinks that this is a good idea, I'd be happy to > contribute a paragraph on portmaster, and help with rewriting that > section if desired. Hi all, I see that chinsan's commit generated some confusion and sparked a discussion about the overall goals of this chapter. Fist of all it wasn't me who submitted this new paragraph but I was asked by chinsan to write something on bpkg(8), because he wanted to include information about bpkg(8) in the Handbook. As Marc politely remarked the only "semi-official" tool is portupgrade(1) and I fully agree with him it should be the only one fully documented in the Handbook. I don't see any reason to include an additional nearly identical manual for portmanager (with all due respect to its creator). But at the same time I agree with Doug here when he says about the idea of creating a list of actively maintained ports management applications with a description of each. Letting the community know the alternatives is a good thing IMHO. Chinsan, Doug - will you be working on this? I am willing to offer my help if needed. Best regards, -- Andy Kosela Pythagoras Foundation "What is that which always is and has no becoming, and what is that which becomes but never is" Platohome | help
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