Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:06:41 +0200 From: peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, doc-committers@freebsd.org, Chin-San Huang <chinsan@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml Message-ID: <87vecam7ym.fsf@thingy.datadok.no> In-Reply-To: <20070724094216.GA1003@zaphod.nitro.dk> (Simon L. Nielsen's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:42:17 %2B0200") References: <200707190121.l6J1LOvd007607@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070719054803.GA1002@gothic.blackend.org> <469F1D0F.2090307@FreeBSD.org> <20070719125410.GA9766@kobe.laptop> <20070720101143.GB1002@gothic.blackend.org> <20070724081342.GA32106@soaustin.net> <20070724094216.GA1003@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Personally I think maneging ports is such an integral part of running > a FreeBSD system that it should be in the Handbook itself. FWIW, I agree with Simon here. The ports+packages system is very much part of the daily care and feeding. If this amounts to moving the description of how to install ports and maintain them on a running system out of the Handbook, I think it's not a very wise move. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
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