From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 23 23:40:53 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F5B37B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from trillian.santala.org (ip212-226-173-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.173.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FA9943F3F for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@iki.fi) Received: (qmail 20878 invoked by uid 11053); 24 Mar 2003 07:40:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Mar 2003 07:40:32 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:40:32 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Santala X-X-Sender: jake@trillian.santala.org To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Christian Brueffer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage In-Reply-To: <4754.1048431702@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20030324093641.I32124@trillian.santala.org> References: <4754.1048431702@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20030323143507.GG36490@unixpages.org>, Christian Brueffer writes: > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i386) > >can be nuked as well, right? > > Right. Although it might be considered dragging old baggage around, would it make sense to instead of zapping the man page completely write a new one that would at least give a clue on how things are done these days? Otherwise unclued people might just think there's something wrong with their system because the man page is missing and get even more confused. -jake -- Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message