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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:55:28 +0100
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Merging the FAQ -> handbook, build time options, proof of concept patch
Message-ID:  <20041202185528.GA78684@abigail.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041202132637.2e47744b@localhost>
References:  <20041202132637.2e47744b@localhost>

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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:26:37PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> Ok, this damn FAQ issue needs to be put to rest right now.  About
> a year (more/less?) ago, Nik and I think Murray were discussing
> placing FAQ entries into the handbook, at the end of the chapters
> and filtering them out with some make(1) magic.  After reading
> the BOF comments (compaints more or less) about how we never
> discussed the FAQ, along with a thread on it from last night;
> I whipped up the following patch.
> 
> Here is the gist of what is going on here:
> 
> Relevent information from the FAQ get's merged into the chapters
> they should be in.
> 
> They are added with the WITH_FAQ=yes make variable.  If that is
> no specified, the FAQ portions are not built.
>
[...]

Great!  I vote YES!

Marc



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