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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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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

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