Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:34:57 +0100 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAKEDEV(8) manpage Message-ID: <20030324133457.GR36490@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <20030324093641.I32124@trillian.santala.org> References: <4754.1048431702@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030324093641.I32124@trillian.santala.org>
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--nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:40:32AM +0200, Jarkko Santala wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >=20 > > In message <20030323143507.GG36490@unixpages.org>, Christian Brueffer w= rites: > > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i3= 86) > > >can be nuked as well, right? > > > > Right. >=20 > Although it might be considered dragging old baggage around, would it > make sense to instead of zapping the man page completely write a new one > that would at least give a clue on how things are done these days? >=20 > Otherwise unclued people might just think there's something wrong with > their system because the man page is missing and get even more confused. >=20 > -jake >=20 Well, people are supposed to read UPDATING before updating the system. UPDATING already has an entry about this, so has the handbook, the release notes etc. I think we can't really help people that don't read the recommended documentation. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+fwmAbHYXjKDtmC0RAhroAKCsGZnj9lrm07tSXTobmJ0wvWYgUwCgpj+0 wy6A+S58MYH+6E8aVDYdCK0= =2Q79 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nVYOjVWOcH+Ezkzp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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