Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:55:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020701134600.57152D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020701142231.GB4041@hades.hell.gr>
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-06-30 23:44 +0000, Doug Barton wrote: > > To fix the build, I removed 10.named from the smm/Makefile temporarily. > > I'd like to permanently remove it, since IMO it's no longer pertinent. > > Opinions? > > There are other documents in /usr/share/doc/smm that are kept there only > for their historical value, since they no longer describe what is done > today. One example, that I could find by looking at the ascii output I > keep in my /usr/share/doc, is 01.setup/paper.ascii.gz. Is it really > necessary to remove 10.named? I think keeping things for historical reasons is a useful thing to do, but that installing them in the default install is definitely not a useful thing to do since it will only lead to confusion. Maybe we need a historical documents repository somewhere with a big label saying: We keep these for historical reasons only. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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