Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 09:50:38 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Scott Kenney <saken+freebsd-stable@hotel.rmta.org> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failing because of missing unroff Message-ID: <19991014095038.C55594@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org> References: <v04205507b42a1e181e61@[195.238.21.204]> <12980.939814766@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19991014021408.C87437@hotel.rmta.org>
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On Thu 1999-10-14 (02:14), Scott Kenney wrote: > > The doc tree isn't the src tree at all. Just because the source tree is > > supplied with source for all the programs used to build it doesn't mean > > it should be supplied with the source for the programs needed to build > > the doc tree. > > I think Brad's point is that the tools needed to build the Doc tree > should be included in the doc tree. At one point Nik was working on > doing this, I don't know if he still has it on his todo list or not. I doubt it. Ports are there to provide us with programs. Doc is there to provide us with documents. Messing with these roles is likely to be painful and confusing. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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