From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 3 19:27:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA11815 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca34-49.ix.netcom.com [207.93.143.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA11781 for ; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:27:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id TAA10024; Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:25:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 19:25:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712040325.TAA10024@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: jfieber@indiana.edu CC: max@wide.ad.jp, ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from John Fieber on Wed, 3 Dec 1997 21:21:34 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: the location of the Handbook and the FAQ From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * 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