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Date:      Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:07:45 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Paul Ledbetter III <aeacides@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NOPORTDOCS and info/man
Message-ID:  <20051105100744.GB63214@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <fa99e2800511042350n1eb4aa6g569c0f8af7292720@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fa99e2800511042350n1eb4aa6g569c0f8af7292720@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:50:23AM -0600, Paul Ledbetter III wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
>    Why should a port install man pages and info files when NOPORTDOCS
> is set?  These seem to be documentation to me.  The porter's handbook
> doesn't seem clear on this issue to me.

NOPORTDOCS started out with narrow scope (it was intended for ports
that install large numbers of documentation files that took up a lot
of space) and people have gradually pushed for that scope to widen (as
you are pushing again :-).

Kris

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