Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:16:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding "PMake - A Tutorial" Message-ID: <20001126161612.B6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <p05001910b644b4cfcee6@[192.168.168.205]>; from rdm@cfcl.com on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:19:02PM -0800 References: <20001124152233.A1928@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <XFMail.001124114710.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20001124233159.A1091@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <p05001910b644b4cfcee6@[192.168.168.205]>
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:19:02PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> At 11:31 PM +0000 11/24/00, Nik Clayton wrote:
> >My general feeling is that if people want to build the docs from source
> >then they should track the CVS tree. If they just want to install
> >the documentation then use the tarballs or the packages from the FTP
> >site.
> >
> >As ever, I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise.
>
> Tracking the CVS tree is a higher level of involvement than many
> users are interested in - just installing a "stable" release on
> occasion is about the right level for most users. So, by your
> theory, folks who want this level of involvement should be able
> to say that they want all the source code installed by clicking
> a button, but should have to FTP and unpack each tarball?
Folks who just want the documentation on their system should use the
packages, as described at
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/preface.html#DOC-FORMATS
which includes an example of using pkg_add to download and install the
most recent version of the FAQ.
> Let's make it EASY for folks to have good, complete docs. Or am
> I missing the point of this exercise?
Short of fiddling with sysinstall, that's about as easy as I can make
it. What else would you like it to do?
N
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