From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 23 16:03:31 2007 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 D675D16A419 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:03:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chinsan.tw@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A56113C459 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:03:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chinsan.tw@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so378484anc for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:03:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TH4VntyZ80grUFryAIY23O9kr1AFpTa0PIBCq0PT9sXOJE+qB9rz+d16HXDbN81MM3U0PxRG9f5141a/cfo52HGIMZviY8ECGz3kfidDJZEx3p9awtWZRhmPimk8RvINn6Shb9Zb2xVYr6YUb5ta/nLw+0K4HHFrnnmx0bD9y00= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EF0d6f4p05KGmGVRN86TZDH4PhMYJdzWP2UCm472wZtcC5f6UWgfwWA6zIQK49Dc179hPsa1sPuKhQfJxW5a2ievYQToyk6oQGwF6o6cV+kF/YEY4A8yjjd0oOkI4v9ML1X+pVwAOy53J0QeTQ4rN1L0P+zC3asVFJ7tl4HQaVQ= Received: by 10.100.14.19 with SMTP id 19mr1716854ann.1185206610319; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:03:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.119.4 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1f27304c0707230903i4797a7eekeb91914cd9e2cc9a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:03:25 +0800 From: chinsan To: "Andy Kosela" In-Reply-To: <3cc535c80707220805i1a7acafapeb547c728ad5e5d8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3cc535c80707220805i1a7acafapeb547c728ad5e5d8@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Doug Barton Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml 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: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:03:31 -0000 On 7/22/07, Andy Kosela wrote: > I see that chinsan's commit generated some confusion and sparked a > discussion about > the overall goals of this chapter. Fist of all it wasn't me who > submitted this new paragraph but I was asked by chinsan to write > something on bpkg(8), because he wanted to include information about > bpkg(8) in the Handbook. Yes. :) > As Marc politely remarked the only "semi-official" tool is > portupgrade(1) and I fully agree with him it should be the only one > fully documented in the Handbook. I don't see any reason to include an > additional nearly identical manual for portmanager (with all due > respect to its creator). But at the same time I agree with Doug here > when he says about the idea of creating a list of actively maintained > ports management applications with a description of each. Letting the > community know the alternatives is a good thing IMHO. Maybe the new article will titled as "The Alternatives of FreeBSD Ports Collection's Management" or something else. :p And It will allow the other ports(ports-mgmt) could be added into here. > Chinsan, Doug - will you be working on this? I am willing to offer my > help if needed. Yes, Sure. I will continuing to work on this. ;-) Cheers, - chinsan