Subject: Re: NetBSD Guide in Base System
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Brian Asemi <asemisldkfj@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 03/10/2006 16:47:36
Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> I would want to point out that we can include the txt version of the
>> guide easily in the base system and it won't need any browser.
>> It's also easy to add the pkgsrc guide to the system this way.
>
> We don't have pkgsrc (or even /usr/pkg or /var/db/pkg) in the base
> system, so there's probably no good reason to include the pkgsrc guide -
> all that's needed to get started should be in afterboot(8) and INSTALL.*.
>
This actually kind of brings up another point. There's no man page for
pkgsrc! Would it be feasible to have a man page installed in
/usr/pkg/man when the user runs ./bootstrap? Or somehow have it in the
pkgsrc tarball?
I'm also not sure if everyone on the list has understood the intention
of the PR and this thread. I don't want the source code for the Guide
to be in the base system, just a format of the Guide that is readable
with the base system and possibly other, prettier formats like HTML.
-Brian