Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:48:57 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porters Handbook - how and where are DOCs put? Message-ID: <009c01c041fa$6c349a30$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <200010291652.IAA14681@h4.private> <20001029130831.X20599@puck.firepipe.net>
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> On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 08:52:21AM -0800, papowell@astart.com wrote: > > Just was reading the Porters Handbook, and noticed that > > there are no directions on how and where to install documentation. > > You have about 4,000 ports to look at for examples, and hier(7). Would > be nice if somebody updated the handbook, but that requires work I'd > rather export on newports/updates. ;P Well, I've got a few things to say about updating the handbook ... namely that my efforts to submit fixes have been met with silence. I've sent updates to the doc team numerous times, and I have never received a response regarding my updates (whether they were rejected, and if so, why, etc.) That's why I ignore the porters-handbook and base my ports on existing ports. Mind you, this causes some bad practices to proliferate, but what can you do.. -- Matthew Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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