From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 14 7:47:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt050n71.san.rr.com (dt050n71.san.rr.com [204.210.31.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5622114DC0 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt050n71.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA07458; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3805ECF1.2C2E184C@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:47:13 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Knowles Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles wrote: > > At 1:17 PM -0700 1999/10/12, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Documentation building has ample precedent for external dependencies - the > > entire doc/ tree needs several ports installed to build. I'm sure there > > are other examples in the tree. > > If I may make a suggestion then? If doc/ needs a particular > tool, then that tool should be moved from the ports subsystem to the > main source tree. There are historical reasons why things are the way they are. You might be well served in the future to check the mailing list archives before offering "obvious" suggestions, since we generally (although not always) have good reasons for doing what we do. -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message