From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 20:30:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EE7416A420 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:30:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mail2.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8625443D49 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:30:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 89750 invoked by uid 399); 14 Oct 2005 20:30:07 -0000 Received: from mail1.fluidhosting.com (204.14.90.61) by mail2.fluidhosting.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 2005 20:30:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 22190 invoked by uid 399); 14 Oct 2005 20:29:59 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.1.102?) (dougb@dougbarton.net@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 2005 20:29:59 -0000 Message-ID: <43501540.4000107@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:29:52 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" References: <200510121905.j9CJ5Mrx063823@repoman.freebsd.org> <434DCAC0.7040909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:30:12 -0000 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