From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 3:40:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674BE14A2F; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 03:40:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id MAA09978; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:40:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id MAA09084; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:40:31 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:04:56 +0200 To: Kris Kennaway , Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe From: Brad Knowles Subject: RE: make world failing because of missing unroff Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:17 PM -0700 1999/10/12, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Documentation building has ample precedent for external dependencies - the > entire doc/ tree needs several ports installed to build. I'm sure there > are other examples in the tree. If I may make a suggestion then? If doc/ needs a particular tool, then that tool should be moved from the ports subsystem to the main source tree. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message