Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:29:52 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 Message-ID: <43501540.4000107@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0510130545231.7065@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <200510121905.j9CJ5Mrx063823@repoman.freebsd.org> <434DCAC0.7040909@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.53.0510130545231.7065@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > This cause has been documented in nsswitch.conf(5) for more than half a year. > That time it was thought that might be the best place. I'm sure that the people who are familiar with the issue had a reasonable train of thought there. >>Could you please add a comment in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf to this >>effect as well? > > > Do we really need this? It's documented in make.conf.5 now and there > might be source changes in the future so that changes might not be > needed at all. Adding a comment to yet another file means to update > yet another file in case anything changes and this is easily > forgotten. Yes, I think it's needed. A lot of people who update make.conf don't read the man page. Also, while your point about multiple references is a good one, it shouldn't be _that_ hard to keep it together. > I'm not saying I won't do it if forced to..;) No one is forcing anything. I'm happy to do it if you don't feel right doing it for whatever reason. hth, Doug
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