From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Dec 23 12:10:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 12:10:05 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1669E37B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 12:10:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 744F75749C; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:10:15 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 14:10:15 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/share/doc/{en*,fr*,ja*,ru*} Message-ID: <20001223141015.A78788@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C . Wu" , Rich Morin , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <20001222153135.A35560@mithrandr.moria.org> <7msnnf8pbp.wl@waterblue.imgsrc.co.jp> <20001223204328.A57711@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rdm@cfcl.com on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 11:54:54AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: keichii@peorth.iteration.net Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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