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Date:      Fri, 2 Jan 2015 13:47:23 -0800
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <ngie@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r276565 - in head/gnu: lib/libstdc++/doc usr.bin/diff usr.bin/diff/doc usr.bin/gdb usr.bin/gperf usr.bin/gperf/doc
Message-ID:  <20150102214723.GB72685@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <54A70FB7.1060202@freebsd.org>
References:  <201501022034.t02KYu1I030453@svn.freebsd.org> <20150102204458.GA72199@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAJ5_RoDiKnFbDeXsUPdmC2w_i5F1dmjBw9gSZ3tRu=c9wAQKvA@mail.gmail.com> <20150102213341.GA72376@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <54A70FB7.1060202@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 01:37:59PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> On 1/2/15 1:33 PM, Steve Kargl wrote:
>> Yeah, I know what the default is for tier-1, which is somewhat
>>
>> irrelevant to my question.  bapt@ has removed info pages (and
>> Garrett seems to have cleanup after bapt).  Noting that FreeBSD
>> has more than just tier-1, the question remains.  Is FreeBSD
>> now shipping utilities without proper documentation?
>>
> The docs are there, you just need to install a package to read them.
> 
> It was explained in the commit log.
> 

Well, no, it wasn't explained.   The commit messages notes
that one needs to install print/texinfo to read info pages.
The commit message does not explain how to read the now removed
usr/share/info/{as,ld,gdb,...}.info that correspond to specific
versions of utilities shipped by FreeBSD. 

-- 
Steve



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