From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 01:20:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1880B1065672 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 01:20:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C45528FC08 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 01:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E99314D7141; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:20:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id w+x2ZoDqczwE; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:20:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (catv-80-98-156-89.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.156.89]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83DA014D7133; Fri, 5 Dec 2008 02:20:55 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <493881F7.9020706@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:20:55 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hiroki Sato References: <20081201080917.GA1330@gothic.blackend.org> <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org> <20081205.101257.142333304.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20081205.101257.142333304.hrs@allbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, marc@blackend.org Subject: Re: [Sort of RFC] Ports and packages for docs X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:20:59 -0000 Hiroki Sato escribió: > Gábor Kövesdán wrote > in <493870A9.6050604@FreeBSD.org>: > > ga> Marc Fonvieille escribió: > ga> > These packages provide html-split version (of course other formats are > ga> > possible, I just want to limit the bandwidth) of the 20081130 docset. > ga> > Another thing to note, the packages install docs in > ga> > /usr/local/share/doc/freebsd > ga> > > ga> Maybe you could also add an option (like OVERWRITE_BASE or something > ga> like that) to install them to the usual /usr/share/doc location. In > ga> this way, we could avoid duplication between the base and the ports > ga> version and keep using the path we got used to. It is not very smart > ga> to install things outside from /usr/local, but I think it can be > ga> useful in some cases and this particular is such one. A couple of > ga> other ports also do this (like BIND, OpenSSH, etc.). > > You have a point, but I prefer eliminating our documentation set from > /usr/share/doc and make the doc set can be installed from the > pre-compiled packages, not tarball which uses /usr/share/doc, like > Xorg to avoid such duplication in the future releases. > Yes, that seems even better. I agree with your idea. Although it wouldn't be nice to leave any installed system without documentation if it is not explicitly intended by the user. Maybe doc packages should be installed automatically during the installation just like Perl? Regards, -- Gabor Kovesdan EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org WWW: http://www.kovesdan.org