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Date:      Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:06:51 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named 
Message-ID:  <20020701190651.777033916@overcee.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3D209F09.1525FC90@FreeBSD.org> 

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Doug Barton wrote:
> 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. 

FWIW; This doesn't help you if you are on an isolated lan and trying to use
named on your island network instead of /etc/hosts.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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