From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 23 21:49: 4 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F12437B4C5 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11267 invoked by uid 100); 24 Nov 2000 05:49:02 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14878.334.195893.396445@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:49:02 -0600 (CST) To: "David O'Brien" Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 src/share/man/man7 build.7 In-Reply-To: <132975336@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien types: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 02:20:51PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > > Anyway, you retracted your objection to build(7) fairly early on unless > > I've been reading a different PR to you... > I object to build(7) saying nothing. Are you going to take the lead and > embellish this to the point it actually helps someone? As the author of that page, I object to the phrase "saying nothing". Yeah, it says nothing to someone who knows what's in it. So what? That's true of *every* man page. I wrote it because I got tired of typing that "nothing" in for people on -questions. Why don't you hang out there for a couple of quarters doing that, then decide if being able to say "see build(7)" is better than typing in an actual explanation? Finally, if you'll tell me *what* information you feel it needs to be useful, and where I can find it, I'll add that "embellishment", and submit a PR. Which I'll expect you to either commit, or reject for good reason in short order.