From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 26 8:16:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF5A37B479 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 08:16:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAQGGD506978; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:16:13 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:16:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: finding "PMake - A Tutorial" Message-ID: <20001126161612.B6889@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20001124152233.A1928@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20001124233159.A1091@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rdm@cfcl.com on Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:19:02PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message