Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 11:12:57 +0100 From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/ports/GUIDELINES Message-ID: <3571.812110377@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Sep 1995 02:20:59 PDT." <199509260920.CAA13098@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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In message <199509260920.CAA13098@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>, Satoshi Asami write
s:
>This file is obsolete, it's superseded by section 4.3 of the handbook.
>May I replace it with a file with "Please see the `Porting
>Applications' section of the handbook, available from...."?
Nuke it altogether. Along with /usr/share/FAQ/Text/ports.FAQ. Probably
leave a top level ``README'' with pointers to the relevant locations.
(I just re-read ports.FAQ after a friend contacted me and said ``I've
read ports.FAQ but I still don't know what the fsck a port
is. HELP!?!?!?!??''. It's evil. It should die. It will die. It has
been foretold :-) What was embarassing was he realised that I was the
original author :-( Oh well ... ).
Moral: it helps if you actually have some FAQ's to put in your FAQ
before you start :-)
Gary
P.S. No, he didn't say ``fsck''. I'll leave it up to your imagination
what the real word he used was ;-)
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