From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 6:15:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2836150A0 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11yyAV-0002vT-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:15:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09491; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:15:39 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:15:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Mark Ovens , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting rid on unnecessary docs In-Reply-To: <19991217115607.A19502@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: >> > >> >doc/es* doc/fr* doc/ja* doc/ru* doc/zh* >> >> Well, i think i did that, but i'm not sure. Have to check when i get >> home. But do i need all the english docs anyway? If i try to remove >> them, makeworld crashes. > >That's unusual. 'make world' doesn't touch /usr/doc/*. Maybe make world parses those directories to move the files to their destinations, and when they aren't there it dies. Or maybe (since there are docs in several places) i deleted a little bit too much (directories *and* files) and that tripped make world. Just a guess. >> How much space does all the extraneous >> documentation take up scattered all over the FS? I have a hard time >> finding stuff anyway... >> /usr/local/examples >> /usr/doc >> /usr/local/doc > >/usr/doc is where you put the source for the FDP documentation, >generally. All of the fdp documentation (except the japanese man >pages) install under /usr/share/doc/. fdp? You don't mean pdf do you? So it starts in /usr/doc and ends up in /usr/share/doc? >> I won't even get into my feelings on the SHARE directory.... > >Don't just complain and don't give reasons. It'll never get any >better that way. > >Neil >-- >Neil Blakey-Milner >nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za > -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message