From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 16 14:16: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from bazooka.unixfreak.org (bazooka.unixfreak.org [63.198.170.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984DE37B423 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dima@unixfreak.org) Received: from spike.unixfreak.org (spike [63.198.170.139]) by bazooka.unixfreak.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59CFD3E28; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:15:58 -0700 (PDT) To: "Andrew R. Reiter" Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old man pages In-Reply-To: ; from arr@watson.org on "Mon, 16 Apr 2001 17:08:27 -0400 (EDT)" Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:15:58 -0700 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20010416211558.59CFD3E28@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Andrew R. Reiter" writes: > i was randomly thinking about how when a make installworld (or the like)_ > is done, it does not take into account old man page versions, does it? By > this I mean, things like lkm(4) is pretty damn outdated and unused on a > 4.x machine and so it's kind of not a necesity to have it installed or > left as installed (from a previous installworld). i would want to have > the lkm(4) man page removed if it was still there from a previous > installation because it has nothing to do with the current OS context > (note, lkm(4) was just used as an example). This problem is not specific to manual pages. The installworld process in general doesn't delete anything. If a program was removed from the source tree, it will stay there until someone deletes it manually. I suppose when someone works out a mechanism to take care of that, man pages would be included, too. The problem as I see it with doing something like that is that it would require old programs to still be listed in some Makefiles. They wouldn't be listed as "SUBDIR+=", but "OLDPROG+=" or something like that. Okay, so let's say someone implements that. When do those lines go away? Next minor release? Next major release? Never? Just food for thought, I guess. Dima Dorfman dima@unixfreak.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message