Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:25:52 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jfieber@indiana.edu Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the location of the Handbook and the FAQ Message-ID: <199712040325.TAA10024@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971203203814.26584C-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> (message from John Fieber on Wed, 3 Dec 1997 21:21:34 -0500 (EST))
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* Got that and understand, but my proposal is that the handbook/faq
* should be considered separate entities from FreeBSD--third party
* ventures if you will. The fact that they live in the same cvs
* repository as the FreeBSD core, or a cvs repository at all, is
* just coincidence and convenience. Just like any other port, the
* handbook/faq ports should fetch a tarball of the source, unpack
* it in the "standard" work subdirectory and install in
* ${PREFIX}/share/doc. Giving these special treatment because they
* live in the FreeBSD cvs repository is more trouble than it is
* worth, in my humble opinin.
I think you are contradicting yourself here. You just lined out the
"worth" of having stuff from the local tree. :)
Also, we have quite different views on what these "ports" are. My
take is that these are just for building packages, and the current
Japanese handbook port works just fine for that. I only need to go
check to see if PLIST is up to date once in a while.
People who like to build stuff from sources can cvsup doc-all and do a
"make all install" in there. It's really not any harder than building
the port.
Those who don't want to build from sources use the package, of course. :)
Satoshi
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