Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:52:32 +0100 From: nclayton@lehman.com To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org, jesusr@ncsa.es, chris@calldei.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't build handbook Message-ID: <19990511095232.N14492@lehman.com> In-Reply-To: <199905110749.AAA28713@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:49:10AM -0700 References: <19990508141141.A20366@holly.dyndns.org> <XFMail.990508212539.jesusr@ncsa.es> <19990508231333.45191@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990510111306.I14492@lehman.com> <199905110749.AAA28713@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 12:49:10AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> * From: nclayton@lehman.com
>
> * What should it assume it to be? I thought /usr/doc was the traditional
> * place to put a checked out copy of the doc/ repository.
>
> Uh, no. That's too confusing, why would /usr/doc be the sources when
> the actual documents go to /usr/share/doc?
Why not?
FWIW, I think this has become moderately common usage because of the
Handbook entry on CVSup, which recommends
*default prefix=/usr
If you don't change that then you get /usr/{src,doc,ports,...}
> I use /usr/opt/doc myself. (Same for www.) If people agree that all
> non-src sources should go to /usr/opt, I'm not against moving ports
> there too.
/usr/opt? Ugh.
OK, that's not the most coherent of criticisms, but I don't particularly
like it.
Apart from anything else, I don't think we should be hardcoding paths in
these trees at all. The DOC_PREFIX kludge is only there until the doc/
repository is reorganised to put all the documentation at the same level
in the file system relative to one another. When that's done it can be
removed.
N
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