From owner-cvs-all Sat May 25 12: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DECB537B406; Sat, 25 May 2002 12:04:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4PJ4iNt043670; Sat, 25 May 2002 20:04:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with UUCP id g4PJ4glG043669; Sat, 25 May 2002 20:04:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4PJ4mCa069100; Sat, 25 May 2002 20:04:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205251904.g4PJ4mCa069100@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Garrett Wollman 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 ... References: <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200205251801.g4PI16cc088128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> ; from Garrett Wollman "Sat, 25 May 2002 14:01:06 EDT." Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 20:04:48 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: 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