From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 0:48:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FBDA14A2F for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:48:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 59213 invoked by uid 1003); 14 Oct 1999 07:50:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:50:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Scott Kenney Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Brad Knowles , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff Message-ID: <19991014095038.C55594@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <12980.939814766@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 1999-10-14 (02:14), Scott Kenney wrote: > > The doc tree isn't the src tree at all. Just because the source tree is > > supplied with source for all the programs used to build it doesn't mean > > it should be supplied with the source for the programs needed to build > > the doc tree. > > I think Brad's point is that the tools needed to build the Doc tree > should be included in the doc tree. At one point Nik was working on > doing this, I don't know if he still has it on his todo list or not. I doubt it. Ports are there to provide us with programs. Doc is there to provide us with documents. Messing with these roles is likely to be painful and confusing. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message