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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:47:34 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Referencing man pages from ports/
Message-ID:  <20011008114734.H36543@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011008013845.M21516@windriver.com>; from murray@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:38:45AM -0700
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:38:45AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:30:57AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > Yes.  The call will look like this:
> > 
> > .Pxr cvsup 1 net cvsup
> > 
> > And will be rendered like this:
> > 
> > .Xr cvsup 1
> > .Pq Pa ports/net/cvsup
> 
>   This sounds great to me.  
> 
>   What about optional peices of the source tree like the Kerberos
> stuff?  I'm in favor of creating share/man/man1/kerberos.1 that
> explains what Kerberos is and how to install it, and then this would
> be overwritten by the real man page if Kerberos is actually installed.
> This would fix all the man pages that currently point to the
> (non-existant for most people) kerberos(1).
> 
Overwriting is not a good idea.  Instead, this can be done intelligently
in share/man/man1/Makefile, by cheking if we install Kerberos or not.
After you commit the stub kerberos.1 manpage, just let me know, and
I can do the rest.


Cheers,
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