From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 21:17:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD37FAFD for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72AF88FC08 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TPJwa-0002ev-DI for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:17:24 +0200 Received: from l.saper.info ([91.121.203.103]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:17:24 +0200 Received: from saper by l.saper.info with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:17:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Marcin Cieslak Subject: Re: RFC: removal of share/doc/{papers,psd,smm,usd} in 2 months Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:17:03 +0000 (UTC) Organization: http://saper.info Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20121019143617.GF69724@acme.spoerlein.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: l.saper.info User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:17:20 -0000 >> Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Hi all, > > those roff sources have been very naughty and will be removed from the > tree by the end of the year. Most of those papers are severely out of > date and provide no more use to the system. They can probably also be > found online using a search engine of your choice. > > Should people feel strongly about them, we might be able to move them > over to the doc repository. I am using them quite often and I am very fond of having them locally (useful when working disconnected). I am very often reading the sendmail guide - it's good, up-to-date and explains many dark corners. Recently I found the XDR/RPC docs very useful, as I was porting some software using it and I didn't have too much knowledge about the subject. I used the ffs paper at least twice when fixing a very badly corrupted filesystem (had to use clri and similar commands to bring it back into shape). At those times, you don't want to google around. It is ok to remove stuff that is horribly obsolete and there is no chance to get it updated; but then it should be reviewed. //Marcin