From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 20 14: 6:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87BF37B401 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from crf-consulting.co.uk (pc-80-194-99-19-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [80.194.99.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997E043FB1 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:06:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@crf-consulting.co.uk) Received: from clan.nothing-going-on.org (clan.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.20]) by crf-consulting.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1KM6Taw050279; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:06:29 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin) Received: from clan.nothing-going-on.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clan.nothing-going-on.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1KM6Tm0056484; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:06:29 GMT (envelope-from nik@clan.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by clan.nothing-going-on.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h1KM6Scm056483; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:06:28 GMT Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:06:28 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Garrett Wollman Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [mirror@xyz.lcs.mit.edu: xyz.lcs.mit.edu 6-hour mirror update] Message-ID: <20030220220628.GJ6403@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200209031754.g83HsZUp010035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209031754.g83HsZUp010035@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:54:35PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote: > Is it really necessary to touch more than a thousand files with such > frequency, particularly when the source files have not changed at all? Is this a problem, when using rsync? > For that matter, is it really necessary that there *be* nine different > versions of the same document? I don't know. I have no stats on the relative popularity of the various formats when it comes to downloads. HTML, split HTML, PS, and PDF are probably fundamental formats. Plain text was asked for numerous times. RTF is for people who are thinking about FreeBSD, and want to (for whatever reason) read the docs in Word (or similar). I know, it sounds weird (why not just use PDF?), but that's what was requested multiple times on -doc. PDB, I'll grant, might be a bit superfluous. Then again. . . Multiply that by three for the Gzip, Bzip, and Zip version. Can we remove any of them? Probably not. Gzip and Zip both have their uses, and the BZip format is generally shaves a multiple-tens of K when used. Then there's the pkg_add'able versions, which are just good sense. On the face of it, I'd say there are pretty compelling reasons for keeping all of them. But if anyone's got hard stats I'm all ears. N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) \/ \= ^ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/= _) --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+VVFjk6gHZCw343URAtzRAKCIJKbE6r1qLa5OmfRnxMnA3f16BgCgikgL f0NKc5Lx7FztKfRr9jGpaxc= =UKgC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2fjX3cMESU3XgGmZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message