Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:57:15 -0700 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 sprog.7 Message-ID: <20010604135715.B95843@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010604145505.R37979@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 02:55:05PM -0500 References: <200106041532.f54FWj236909@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010604084436.A78021@FreeBSD.org> <20010604145505.R37979@elvis.mu.org>
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> so now we'll have two copies of the same content? is the one in the developers > handbook going away? are you going to be the one to make sure they stay in sync > for all of eternity? No, they are not intended to be the same thing. The content in the Developer's Handbook was just a handy place to start. It's already substantially different, because of the different goals for man pages and books. > typically, duplicating the same information in two different places in the > tree is frowned upon. whats the plan here? Actually, this was written specifically to reduce duplication. The plan is to have a manual page that we can cross reference, rather than including full warnings all over the place. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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