From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 1 11:27:24 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 761C437B400; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C18943E09; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9ADA8B5B4; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D209F09.1525FC90@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 11:27:21 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Robert Watson wrote: > > 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. I agree with this reasoning, and also with keeping them around "somewhere." The BOG is a particularly good candidate for pruning since it's still available from the vendor. Yesterday I sent a proposal for a project to -doc to document what all those old things in /usr/share/doc are, and how to use them. Perhaps we need to modify that project to include, "Identify what's still useful, and archive the rest on the web site?" Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message