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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:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The commit to disable them =
(https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=3Drevision&revision=3D229081) =
doesn't say why so I was wondering if anyone knew, and if there would be =
any objections to changing the default?
>=20
> We would very much like to transition to using FreeBSD default =
packages wherever possible and this would be very helpful.
>=20
> 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).
>=20
> Any information / feedback much appreciated.
>=20
> Thanks.
>=20
> --
> 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
>=20
>=20
>=20

--
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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