Re: cvs commit: src/share Makefile src/share/doc Makefile src/usr.sbin/lpr Makefile

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

>   Log:
>   Don't build / install the various historic troff papers to
>   /usr/share/doc. Don't install the KAME implementation details,
>   the document is outdated too.

I have to say that I'm not really feeling comfortable with this commit. 
While it's true that several of those documents are outdated and 
historic there are some that still apply quite well and might be useful 
to get new users going more quickly (at a point before they have the 
source code, i.e. when booting from the LiveCD).

Wouldn't it have been better to review them one by one and see what can 
be scrapped or not?

Sascha

P.S. Joerg told me that the reason they were removed was that groff is 
no longer needed in the buildtools then. While I see the advantages of 
this it feels sorta strange to have useful documentation removed to 
achieve this goal because it doesn't help the new user searching for 
documentation.

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