From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 02:01:26 2003 Return-Path: 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 C03EE37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MX2.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A6D43FA3 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kalts@estpak.ee) Received: from kevad.internal (80-235-38-172-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.38.172]) by MX2.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33C773653; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:59:37 +0300 (EEST) Received: by kevad.internal (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8ABF5C5BF; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:56:04 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 04:56:04 +0300 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Guy Middleton Message-ID: <20030620015604.GB1916@kevad.internal> References: <20030618183357.GA21738@chaos.obstruction.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030618183357.GA21738@chaos.obstruction.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: terminfo man page X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kalts@estpak.ee List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:01:27 -0000 On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:33:57PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote: > I put this on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but I'll ask here too. > > Is there any reason for the terminfo man page? > > It's a good man page, a very stylish and well-written man page, but it's > wrong. > > It says the terminfo files are in /usr/share/misc/terminfo (they're not > there). They do get installed into /usr/local/share/misc/terminfo as part of > the ncurses port. Could we just remove the man page from the base system? No, please. Better install terminfo database into /usr/share/misc/terminfo and be done with it. -- Vallo Kallaste