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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--MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDbIRwWry0BWjoQKURAkIrAJ99+XBd3lpbqpuG6v24hnmt9yxZDwCdHypt fqGkN6kybNamMstBCgn06Jg= =lMsG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr--
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