From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 13 4:35:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out1.mx.skynet.be (out1.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D0514F4A; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 04:35:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@foxbert.skynet.be) Received: from foxbert.skynet.be (foxbert.skynet.be [195.238.1.45]) by out1.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id NAA08172; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:35:34 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from root@localhost) by foxbert.skynet.be (8.9.1/jovi-pop-2.1) id NAA18008; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:35:31 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <12713.939814081@axl.noc.iafrica.com> References: <12713.939814081@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 13:35:03 +0200 To: Sheldon Hearn From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff Cc: Kris Kennaway , Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:28 PM +0200 1999/10/13, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > If you want tools distributed with the sources which they support, you > should incorporate the tools into the doc/ tree. But then you'd still > need non-doc tools to build _those_. That's fine, but you shouldn't need anything outside of the normal source tree to support those tools, right? In other words, you wouldn't be dependant on yet another program from the ports system, right? I'm trying to understand just precisely what depends on what, and to help ensure that there are no circular dependancies. I'm also trying to help suggest a path whereby we don't have more important things (like the doc/ tree) dependant on lesser things (like the ports system). -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message