Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:11:03 +0800 From: "Philip Paeps" <philip@freebsd.org> To: mj-mailinglist@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files in /usr/share/misc Message-ID: <62438B8D-08D3-40D4-829D-B8B23064B0F0@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <trinity-6b8b28fb-d7fe-4b6e-afe4-047335eb5e19-1611495340838@3c-app-gmx-bs28> References: <trinity-6b8b28fb-d7fe-4b6e-afe4-047335eb5e19-1611495340838@3c-app-gmx-bs28>
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On 2021-01-24 21:35:40 (+0800), mj-mailinglist@gmx.de wrote: > - some FreeBSD project related files, like: > bsd-family-tree.dot, committers-*.dot, organization.dot > These would better be part of the documentation. > BTW, on 12.x they are out of date: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251701 I think we've never bothered merging those to older stable branches because there's not really any point. It might be worth doing so just before a release or something but there's very little benefit. > - development(?) related files, like: > pci_vendors, scsi_modes, usb_hid_usages, usbdevs, windrv_stub.c > I don't know if these files are used during build-/runtime E.g. pci_vendors is used by pciconf(8) and windrv_stub.c is used by ndiscvt(8). I'm sure the others are used by similar utilities that escape my memory. > - some files which are used during (build-?/)runtime: > magic, magic.mgc, termcap, termcap.db Shouldn't these be in a more > specific place? They are pretty static, so the "var" part in /var/db > does not fit, > but services.db is located there, too. The magic* files are used by file(1). See termcap(5) for the others. > - is the fonts folder in base, or did some port create it? I'm not > sure. Hah. I like the comment in hier(7) about this directory. :-) Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises
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