From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 10 15:43:58 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACA637B405; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:43:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 63AC36ACBC; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:13:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:13:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Chad David Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Dima Dorfman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 vn_isdisk.9 Message-ID: <20010711081346.B64441@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200107100725.f6A7PI652032@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010710073050.4F2D33E32@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010710024604.M1894@sneakerz.org> <20010710104921.A60485@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010710104921.A60485@colnta.acns.ab.ca>; from davidc@acns.ab.ca on Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:49:21AM -0600 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 10 July 2001 at 10:49:21 -0600, Chad David wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:46:04AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> * Dima Dorfman [010710 02:30] wrote: >>> Alfred Perlstein writes: >>>> alfred 2001/07/10 00:25:18 PDT >>>> >>>> Added files: >>>> share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 devsw.9 >>>> major.9 minor.9 umajor.9 uminor.9 >>>> vn_isdisk.9 >>> >>> This is great stuff, but wouldn't it be better to merge some of these >>> into one man page? Stuff like major.9 and minor.9 definitely don't >>> below in separate files. Same for umajor/uminor and >>> cdevsw_add/cdevsw_remove. Same might apply to some of the other man >>> pages (I thought I saw something similar, but can't recall right now.) >> >> I'm not much of a fan of overcrowded manpages, however you do have >> good point. I'll leave it to Chad to make that call. > > I'm not really sure what I like. I don't really like how FreeBSD formats > [some] large man pages (I need to take another look at AIX as I recall > I liked that way they did it). I've just recently set up an AIX box. I don't like the format, and it's so different from our (somewhat strict) rules that I don't think you have a hope of getting it accepted. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message