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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:15:36 -0500
From:      Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portupgrade manpage
Message-ID:  <20011102081536.A77305@blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011102103923.Y1345-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@tisys.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:42:54AM %2B0100
References:  <20011102091807.A15224@eborcom.com> <20011102103923.Y1345-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Nils Holland wrote:
> Thanks. I just asked because I wasn't really sure, as knu is an active
> member of the FreeBSD Project, I thought that maybe his manpages could be
> maintained by the FDP as well - in contrast to the manpages of "truly
> external" ports like pine, X11, etc, which I was aware of not being
> maintained by the FDP, but by the creators of the software.

Well, portupgrade is written in Ruby, so it can't be part of the base
system until Ruby is also.

If you want to see truly spectacular flamage, go to -hackers and
suggest they import Ruby into the tree.  But warn me first, so I can
unsubscribe. :-)

==ml

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