From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 10 0:10: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9F437B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id AAA87272; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 00:10:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011100810.AAA87272@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: docs/22676: No man pages for Make.conf or /usr/src/sys/Makefile Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/22676; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: Mike Meyer Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/22676: No man pages for Make.conf or /usr/src/sys/Makefile Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:02:56 +0200 On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 13:22:59 CST, Mike Meyer wrote: > Even though I've shown you how to do things so this doesn't make the > stale documentation problem any worse than it already is, and it > improves the accessibility of the documentation? Yup. However, I do think that my argument is mostly emotional. :-) I have this pretty deep-seated feeling that manpages that document the obvious aren't good. However, you can probably just ignore everything I've said, given Nik Clayton's counter argument and the fact that I have nothing to say in answer to it. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message