>Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 20:35:07 -0800
>From: Alien Briggs <briggs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>

>>Description:
>	No man page for tar.
>>How-To-Repeat:
>	Type "man tar"  The response is "man: no entry for tar in the
>	manual."
>>Fix:
>	Someone needs to write a man page or cobble one together from
>	spare parts, at least.

Few of the GNU packages used in NetBSD have complete, up-to-date man
pages.  I think it would be a good idea to include the texinfo
documentation for all of the GNU packages used by NetBSD in the source
distribution (*not* the binary distribution).  Then users can get the
GNU texinfo-3.1 package (which builds out-of-the-box) and make info
pages, which can be read using Emacs or the standalone info reader
that comes with texinfo-3.1.  Also, users who have TeX on their
systems can create printed documentation or view the output with xdvi.

I would guess that the texinfo documentation was removed from the GNU
packages to save room; so, if they are reinserted into the source
distribution, they should have their own supfile target.  Then the
texinfo docs would still be optional.

I think it would be another good idea to split up the gnu.tar.gz file;
right now it's around 8 meg, easily twice the size of any of the other
tar files.  I've blown out my disk allocation downloading this beast a
number of times.  The gnu.tar.gz file should be divided into gnubin
(gnu/usr.bin and gnu/Makefile), gnulib (gnu/lib), and gnumisc
(gnu/libexec and gnu/games).
-- 
Mike Long                                         Mike.Long@Analog.com
VLSI Design Engineer                              voice: (617)461-4030
Analog Devices, SPD Div.                            FAX: (617)461-3010
Norwood, MA 02062                            *this = !opinion(Analog);

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