Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:43:54 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, simon@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Split and cleanup of Porters Handbook Message-ID: <20060614124354.4a45d91b.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20060614074230.GA1221@soaustin.net> References: <20060613223307.GB1074@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20060614074230.GA1221@soaustin.net>
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:42:30 -0500 linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote: > I'm quite concerned that it will be more difficult to figure out when new > text was introduced, or old text was changed. There have been several > times in the past that I have tried to find out "why is XYZ being done, is > that just something from the old days? When was it introduced?" and have > been unable to, due to the fact that years ago there was some kind of > repocopy and split (off from the Handbook, perhaps?) and it's so obscure > that it's just not possible to track it all down. > > I have had some ideas in the past on how to reorg the handbook in terms > of "policies (which will be enforced) vs. best practices (which is what > portmgr recommends", and further split the thing up into a Ports Users' > Guide vs. what really ought to be in the "Porter's Handbook", but I have > been far enough away from doc work for a while that I think I have to admit > I won't get around to this anytime in the next month or two. > Well, 20+ megabytes of space isn't much. And storage space is nice and cheap these days. -- Tom Rhodes
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