From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 18 17:52:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca44-42.ix.netcom.com [209.111.212.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8587115066; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:52:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@stampede.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id RAA60888; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:49:52 -0700 (PDT) To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Alexey M. Zelkin" , Nik Clayton , doc@freebsd.org, doc-jp@jp.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Default FDP docs installation directory? References: <19990818121931.A4266@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <199908182104.BAA04851@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19990819001734.A83680@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 18 Aug 1999 17:49:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: Nik Clayton's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:17:34 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Nik Clayton * > $ lynx file:///usr/share/doc/en/ * > * > than * > * > $ lynx file:///usr/local/share/doc/fdp/en/ * > * > First is more intuitive, I think. * * If the sysadmin wants this as local policy they can enforce it with a * symlink (possibly as a selectable option in doc/Makefile, to make the * link automatically). The issue is not about local policy, Nik. There are literally dozens of Japanese FreeBSD books and magazines out there that includes a variation of the first line up there as the command to read the handbook. (I don't know about other countries but I suspect the situation is the same.) When people buy a book, install the latest system and find out it doesn't work, they get pissed. And we (on the Japanese mailing lists) are the ones that hear about it. Or worse, they just go away and install Linux, and we never hear from them again. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message