Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:10:15 -0600
From: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /usr/share/doc/{en*,fr*,ja*,ru*}
Message-ID: <20001223141015.A78788@peorth.iteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <p05001928b66aaa18e755@[192.168.168.205]>; from rdm@cfcl.com on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:54:54AM -0800
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On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:54:54AM -0800, Rich Morin scribbled: | At 8:43 PM +0200 12/23/00, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: | >> Actually, that directory tree needs a general clean-up and re- | >> organization; perhaps the ja problem could be dealt with as part | >> of a general reshuffling. Is anyone brave enough to suggest | >> a new arrangement for the directory? | > | >What sort of clean-up? | | No, you don't understand; I was trying to get RID of that monkey (:-). | | One (rather extreme :-) possibility would be to rearrange /usr/share: | | /usr/share/ | code/ | examples/, libg++/, mk/, perl/, skel/ | data/ | calendar/, dict/, games/, isdn/, zoneinfo/ | doc/ | bsd/ | faq@, handbook/ | unix/ | papers/, psd/, smm/, usd/ | info/ | intl/ | en@, es@, ... | long/ | en_US.ISO_8859-1/, es_ES.ISO_8859-1/, ... | man/ | misc/ | ntp/ | docprep/ | groff_font/, me/, pcvt/, syscons/, tabset/, tmac/ | intl/ | locale/, nls/, vi/ This proposal requires the cooperation with all of the translation teams, since you are asking for a major change here. However, I do not see the point of reorganizing for the sake of reogranizing. Many applications expect certain behaviors. In addition, other parts of src/ expects things to be at a certain place with regards to POSIX. Sheldon would be the one to answer the POSIX questions. :) I know for a fact that all of the locales are there because everyone expects the locales to be there by _standard_. Your groff and syscons fonts are there and expected to be there. A few others on the list are: mk, perl, skel, zoneinfo, data, info, ntp, vi, nls, bla bla bla ... mtree and the buildworld process would have to be changed too. I think you understand my point. Changing this structure requires needless and a large effort for three major branches, many src/ hackers, many translation teams. Not that I am saying change is a bad thing, but I see no real reason to violate POLA as well as POSIX. Would you care to explain why you want /usr/share this way? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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