Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 10:54:37 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers? Message-ID: <39675CCD.D3FC41FF@softweyr.com> References: <20000707082617.L25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000707081202.J25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007061848400.66456-100000@login-1.eunet.no> <200007070438.WAA58169@harmony.village.org> <20000707081202.J25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <200007071522.JAA62042@harmony.village.org> <200007071535.JAA62175@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <20000707082617.L25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Alfred Perlstein writes:
> : * Warner Losh <imp@village.org> [000707 08:23] wrote:
> : > In message <20000707081202.J25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Alfred Perlstein writes:
> : > : Putting the manpages in the same directory shouldn't be that painful
> : > : and makes getting at them easier.
> : > :
> : > : What's wrong with sys/pci/xl.4 ?
> : >
> : > That's 7 extra files in sys/isa, but on the order of 30 in sys/pci.
> : > That's starting to get painful, imho.
> :
> : I'm not sure I understand the 'pain' of that, is it just because you
> : feel that it would bloat src/sys? I understand that concern but I
> : don't really agree that it would be a problem.
>
> [Summary of problems elided.]
>
> I'm not violently opposed to this or anything, but there are lots of
> issues that need to be dealt with if you are serious about moving
> things.
Seems like a src/sys/man heirarchy would solve both the problems. It
would make it simple to find the man sources, and keep us from cluttering
the source code directories. It would push the files away from the source,
but predictability seems more important than proximity in this case.
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