From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 2: 0:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1957714C27 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id LAA24159; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:00:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id LAA15815; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:00:20 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> References: <12980.939814766@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 10:23:21 +0200 To: Scott Kenney , Sheldon Hearn From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:14 AM -0400 1999/10/14, Scott Kenney wrote: > 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 was thinking that we should either do that, or perhaps make the doc tree part of the ports system, so that we can automate the dependancies. If neither of these is possible or desirable, I'd like for someone to explain to me why, so that I can increase my understanding of how FreeBSD works, why it works the way it does, etc.... -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message