From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 1 10:55:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D2837B400; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7E043E09; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g61HtFbM057471; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:55:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:55:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named In-Reply-To: <20020701142231.GB4041@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Maybe we need a historical documents repository somewhere with a big label saying: We keep these for historical reasons only.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