Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 07:24:41 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sorry, found it explained during jadetex installation Message-ID: <19990531072441.A55361@titan.klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905301938090.9023-100000@acp.qiv.com>; from Jay Nelson on Sun, May 30, 1999 at 08:34:53PM -0500 References: <19990531001359.C34894@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905301938090.9023-100000@acp.qiv.com>
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On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 08:34:53PM -0500, Jay Nelson wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > >Huh, didn't know that. I thought it were only the tweaking of the > >four (?) variables you mention during installation. > > > >So your installation instructions are not complete ;-) > > No -- I think the instructions were fine. They left me with the choice > that I thought was appropriate. The beauty of the ports system is > that, if I don't want to play ball, I can delete the port with no harm > done. It's difficult to balance the needs of those new to a system and > those who want to see how it's used in a new context. I think Nik has > done a good job and I would be hard pressed to arrive at a productive > alternative. Certainly Nik has done a good job. No doubt about it. > Strong disagreement -- damned near rant level disagreement. Strikes me > as a MicroSoft approach. No not that :-/ Jay, all that I want is to check, if the user _still_ has values in the config file, that are _known_ to be too small for jadetex. If this is the case, it's a complete showstopper. I imagine, that people from the document project already went through this painful tuning process that isn't easy, as you say. Based on your experience (what finetuning is needed), it should be possible, to get some recommended values, that have to be configured, so that jadetex is able to "compile" the FreeBSD documents from the document project. If jadetex then is able, to compile the FreeBSD documents, the settings can't be that bad, or ?! BTW, is there perhaps a "meta-port" available for the document project ? Could we then agree, that only the meta-port does the tuning automatically (but of course with a warning message in the post-install target). If people use the metaport, then it should be evident, that jadetex is primary used for the document project and then the automatic tuning should be of greater value, than for people, that only want to use jadetex, with possibly other goals than translating doc from the document project ? Could we agree on that ? -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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