From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 2 12:44: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C7737B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 12:44:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a167.otenet.gr [212.205.215.167]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eA2Kejo24150; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:40:46 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA1N64j01353; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:06:04 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:06:04 +0200 (EET) From: Giorgos Keramidas Message-Id: <200011012306.eA1N64j01353@hades.hell.gr> To: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au, MSILVER@scana.com Subject: Re: Newbie packages Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <006101c0437f$2e745f60$837e03cb@dougy> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: "Doug Young" > Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:11:47 +1000 > > I wasn't aware it was in ports ..... but then isn't that what this > whole thread is about ?? There appears to be a HEAP of stuff > in packages / ports / wherever without sufficient explanation of > what the thing does. Yeah, well, you are right here. And /usr/ports/INDEX is not my idea of a newbie-friendly table of contents. By reading /usr/ports/Makefile I can tell that the command # cd /usr/ports ; make readme will get me my list of usual README.html's, but this is definitely not something that a newbie will easily find out about. And /usr/ports/README does not mention it, at all. Anybody else feeling the send-pr coming? :-) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message