From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 24 10:06:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8319916A418; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from skapet.datadok.no (skapet.datadok.no [194.54.107.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3075113C457; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@bsdly.net) Received: from thingy.datadok.no ([194.54.103.97] helo=thingy.datadok.no.bsdly.net ident=peter) by skapet.datadok.no with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IDHHx-0005QE-0F; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:06:45 +0200 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <200707190121.l6J1LOvd007607@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070719054803.GA1002@gothic.blackend.org> <469F1D0F.2090307@FreeBSD.org> <20070719125410.GA9766@kobe.laptop> <20070720101143.GB1002@gothic.blackend.org> <20070724081342.GA32106@soaustin.net> <20070724094216.GA1003@zaphod.nitro.dk> From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:06:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070724094216.GA1003@zaphod.nitro.dk> (Simon L. Nielsen's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:42:17 +0200") Message-ID: <87vecam7ym.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.19 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas , Mark Linimon , doc-committers@freebsd.org, Chin-San Huang Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:06:46 -0000 "Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > Personally I think maneging ports is such an integral part of running > a FreeBSD system that it should be in the Handbook itself. FWIW, I agree with Simon here. The ports+packages system is very much part of the daily care and feeding. If this amounts to moving the description of how to install ports and maintain them on a running system out of the Handbook, I think it's not a very wise move. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.