From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 24 5:35: 2 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 12E1437B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 05:34:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.181.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A5943F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 05:34:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@unixpages.org) Received: from gondor.middleearth (gondor.middleearth [192.168.1.42]) by haakonia.hitnet.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B34C4F2; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:34:57 +0100 (CET) Received: by gondor.middleearth (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6FA96466F; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:34:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:34:57 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer To: Jarkko Santala Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> References: <4754.1048431702@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030324093641.I32124@trillian.santala.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030324093641.I32124@trillian.santala.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-PGP-Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT 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 --nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:40:32AM +0200, Jarkko Santala wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > > In message <20030323143507.GG36490@unixpages.org>, Christian Brueffer w= rites: > > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i3= 86) > > >can be nuked as well, right? > > > > Right. >=20 > 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? >=20 > Otherwise unclued people might just think there's something wrong with > their system because the man page is missing and get even more confused. >=20 > -jake >=20 Well, people are supposed to read UPDATING before updating the system. UPDATING already has an entry about this, so has the handbook, the release notes etc. I think we can't really help people that don't read the recommended documentation. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+fwmAbHYXjKDtmC0RAhroAKCsGZnj9lrm07tSXTobmJ0wvWYgUwCgpj+0 wy6A+S58MYH+6E8aVDYdCK0= =2Q79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message