Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 17:17:48 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "tcltk@freebsd.org" <tcltk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: No man pages by default Message-ID: <E16F3452-079B-49E7-B395-23585F32667B@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <B8271A47-249D-4712-B9A5-0DCBE6D10909@gsoft.com.au> References: <B8271A47-249D-4712-B9A5-0DCBE6D10909@gsoft.com.au>
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Oops a co-worker reminded me I asked this in the past :) A suggestion then was to use MAN_SUFFIX to avoid collisions with multiple Tcl versions being installed simultaneously so I'll see about creating patches to do that. > On 19 Feb 2019, at 17:02, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: > > Hi, > We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for a lot of work things (running radar systems) and one annoying bug bear is the lack of man pages by default. > > The commit to disable them (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=229081) doesn't say why so I was wondering if anyone knew, and if there would be any objections to changing the default? > > We would very much like to transition to using FreeBSD default packages wherever possible and this would be very helpful. > > I did have a look in bugzilla but I couldn't find anything (apart from a few name conflicts which were fixed with some man page renames). > > Any information / feedback much appreciated. > > Thanks. > > -- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum > > > -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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