From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 1 12: 6:47 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 4643837B400; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (12-232-114-102.client.attbi.com [12.232.114.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE92D43E09; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777033916; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug Barton Cc: Robert Watson , Giorgos Keramidas , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Fate of /usr/share/doc/smm/10.named In-Reply-To: <3D209F09.1525FC90@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 12:06:51 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020701190651.777033916@overcee.wemm.org> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message