From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 18 5:12:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A84D14BFD; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 05:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA43932; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 14:12:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: nik@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff References: <12713.939814081@axl.noc.iafrica.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Oct 1999 14:12:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:28:01 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn writes: > If you want tools distributed with the sources which they support, you > should incorporate the tools into the doc/ tree. But then you'd still > need non-doc tools to build _those_. The obvious extension of this principle is to move the entire OS into the doc tree; then you'd have a fully self-contained collection of documentation along with all the tools needed to edit and publish it (assuming you import e.g. thttpd along with the rest). FreeBSD would then cease to exist except as a collection of tools for the FDP. I'm sure Nik would *love* this idea 8) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message