Subject: Re: CVS commit: htdocs
To: None <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: www-changes
Date: 06/06/2001 17:50:04
On Thu, 31 May 2001 hubert@feyrer.de wrote:

> Whatever, as long as stuff is kept in one place.
>
> besides packages.7, there's als mk.conf.example - can you spell
> redundancy? no? then try adding a variable to bsd.pkg.mk that users can
> override. This situation is highly suboptimal.
>
> And maintaining yet another piece of documentation in another place
> doesn't make this better, which was the point of my mail.
>
> If you want to convert Packages.txt to a different format, go ahead.
> If you want to kill packages.7 and/or mk.conf.example, go for it.
> Just don't make things *worse*.

	I was merging two html doc files into one - which if anything
	is reducing the number of places to look for docs.

	I agree we should reduce duplication more, but the change I
	made things better.

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