Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:31:16 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why don't section 4 pages live with their drivers? Message-ID: <20000707083116.A35215@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <15951.962878183@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:09:43PM %2B0200 References: <15951.962878183@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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-On [20000706 19:13], Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh@uunet.co.za) wrote: > >I notice that a lot of section 4 manual pages live in src/share/man/man4 >instead of in the subdirectory in which the code that implements the >associated drivers resides. > >I realize that many drivers have bits in too many directories for this >to be possible. I prefer to have the manual pages in man4/ This makes updating them easy when Peter (for example) commits some config changes again. Contrary to me having to wade though the entire source tree scourging for the files. I find the placement of the man4 files in one subdir under man the better solution. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; Haste makes waste... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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