Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:35:34 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Danny Browne <danny_browne@eircom.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Poor Applictaion Documentation Message-ID: <20041114223534.GA23118@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041114171440.80F3743D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041114171440.80F3743D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 05:14:39PM +0000, Danny Browne wrote: > More of a general gripe thatn a question, > > Why are most of the ports for BSD soooo poorly documented. This is somethig i was very suprised at. > > I am not looking in the right places? > > For example, try and find some page on the web that will tell what the latest version of gnome fifth toe, (or power tools or whatever) is and what aditional packages it will install. Its impossible, because it's not documented. > > And it's not just gnome alot of the open source UNIX/GNU Linux applications websites are poorly maintained and info is quite often seriously outdated. > > Feel free to bitch at me if i'm wrong here, but as a relatively new user this has been my biggest problem. Not the techincal side. Complain to the authors of the software that you feel is poorly documented [1]. Remember that the software in ports isn't developed by the FreeBSD project. Kris [1] They'll probably tell you that they know it's under-documented, and ask for your help in remedying the situation. This is a great way that non-coders can contribute to open source projects. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBl922Wry0BWjoQKURAtDpAJ9ObdcZAZBuuoseO/OE+zpZCDz78wCfVmps rgGSY9y4lxVa7hhfCAQE51g= =8ren -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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