From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Mar 10 21: 3:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E004637B401; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCAC43F85; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B11B2105B; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:02:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:02:39 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: David Schultz Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030311050239.GG79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <20030310195323.GA2812@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030310204035.GU79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030311045239.GA4369@HAL9000.homeunix.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Actually, I was thinking of the fact that properly laid out DocBook > can be converted into a (slightly more concise) mdoc file. I have > nothing against a manpage listing all of the sysctls, but I think > that centralizing the information in an SGML-based format would be > much more useful in the long run. And since you can make a manpage > out of that, the only disadvantage I see is the extra work to put ^^^^^^^^^^ I don't disagree with 'ya in any way, shape, or form, it's just that the "extra work" bit isn't likely to be trivial and I don't want it to stand in the way of being able to type "man 5 sysctl" and get some kind of help as to what each sysctl MIB means.... but I'd love to be proven wrong. :) -sc > together the DocBook stuff and figure out how to do the conversion. -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message