Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 20:04:48 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin Makefile src/gnu/usr.bin/ptx COPYING ChangeLog Makefile NEWS README THANKS TODO alloca.c argmatch.c bumpalloc.h check-out config.h diacrit.c diacrit.h error.c getopt.c getopt.h getopt1.c mkinstalldirs ptx.c xmalloc.c ... Message-ID: <200205251904.g4PJ4mCa069100@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> "Sat, 25 May 2002 14:01:06 EDT." References: <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Tue, 21 May 2002 02:20:34 -0700 (PDT), Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> said: > > > Remove ptx. It is not used anywhere in the base system, has not been > > maintained for years and is very old code. If there is any need for > > it, I suspect that ports would be a better place. > > It was ``used'' to build the indices for the printed volumes of manual > pages. See src/share/man/man0. ... which isn't part of the build, and has rotted since 2.0 days. To resurrect this, the existing ports-based system in src/release/ would seem to me to be the most logical approach rather than bloating the base system for a release-only tool. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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