Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 21:11:21 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: rwmaillists@googlemail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where are the handbooks? Message-ID: <4d0d93f9.bMGjvP62vTTOjucy%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20101219023746.04a4cc3f@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4d0d694c.MNCBc7X1IUIwLwvi%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20101219023746.04a4cc3f@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:09:16 -0800 > perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Which of the 8.1-RELEASE distribution sets contains the handbook, > > developer's handbook, porter's handbook, etc? > Those distributions were a mystery to me the first time I installed > FreeBSD and they still are. I've never understood why anyone would > want to lump together significant ports installation with minor > base-system penny-pinching in such an opaque way. > ... the documentation is packaged ... > $ ls -d /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-* > /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-all /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-ja > ... Thanks. It would never have occurred to me to look for documentation of the _base_ system in a _port_. The porter's handbook, maybe, but the others? Seems to me like a POLA violation. Anyway, problem solved after fetching the package.
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