On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:06:59PM -0600, kernelpanicked wrote:
> http://netbsd.org/Documentation/
> 
> Not to be a jerk, but why are you even responding to NetBSD PRs if you 
> don't know where the damn docs are located for the system?

I responded because I do know where the docs are, and from what you
said in your PR, you _don't_ know where they are. I quote, "the only
documentation on my machine was in /usr/share/doc and believe it or
not, was in HTML form" and "... most (all?) of NetBSD's docs are only
Web accessable." However, that's not the only documentation that comes
with NetBSD, and much of the stuff in /usr/share/doc is not in HTML
form. I see a lot of troff, but I bet you don't know what that is
either.

http://netbsd.org/Documentation/ is mostly links to external FAQs and
HOWTOs, not what I'd consider system documentation. The only thing
that might be useful to include as part of NetBSD is the NetBSD
Guide--the rest of it isn't generally applicable. Do I need the
NetBSD/amiga Guide to Networking FAQ on my system? No. Steps to
connect via GPRS / CDPD? No. Wireless networking using the Lucent
WaveLAN? No. etc..

You mentioned in your PR that you were looking for documentation and
could only find 4 programs documented in /usr/share/doc. You might
want to compare how many programs are documented in
http://netbsd.org/Documentation/ . Then see how many programs are
documented in /usr/share/man. I maintain that NetBSD comes with plenty
of good documentation. I don't see why you think that the man pages
are a poor substitute for real documentation.