Re: pkg/31473

[Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/31473; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dieter Baron <dillo%danbala.tuwien.ac.at@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/31473
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:55:22 +0100

 On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:50:01PM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 >  It may be better to remove the paragraph in 
 >  pkgsrc/doc/guide/files/editing.xml that mentions the specific packages and 
 >  instead just say:
 >  
 >     The pkgsrc/doc/guide package will install the build dependencies for
 >     generating the HTML, text, and PDF outputs.
 >  
 >  Is that okay instead to close this PR?
 
   That does not help when creating a list of package one needs to edit
 the guide (e.g. for a limited bulk build or for a pkg_chk config
 file).  Listing the correct dependencies would be more helpful, and,
 since they don't change often, would not be hard to maintain.
 
                                                yours,
                                                dillo