Re: [CFR] Remove texinfo from base

Warner Losh wrote:
> On Jun 25, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> =

>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:20:41AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> On Jun 25, 2014, at 4:00 AM, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.ne=
t> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:52:10PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>>>> Baptiste Daroussin, and lo! it spake thus:
>>>>> I have just committed the support for this in ports, anyway breakage
>>>>> should be reported, right now it seems fine on my exp-run
>>>> Oh, yes.  Sorry, I did phrase that poorly.  This shouldn't _break_
>>>> anything, but I suspect it will uncover existing-but-hidden breakage.
>>>>
>>>> Which is good.  But does merit awareness that "hey, this will probably
>>>> happen somewhere, so know this is a place to look when a build
>>>> breaks".
>>> I know it will break certain nanobsd configurations that build ports be=
cause
>>> dependencies there (at least for the ones I=92ve done) aren=92t well ha=
ndled. So
>>> I agree that this patch is missing, at the very least, an UPDATING entr=
y and
>>> a __FreeBSD_version bump.
>> If you build a port that needs texinfo the port framework will do what i=
t needs
> =

> Except in environments that don=92t do dependencies quite right, or where=
 only a subset
> of ports tree has been imported and texinfo isn=92t part of that=85  But =
people with them
> usually know, which is why UPDATING is needed. That=92s all. There=92s no=
thing else for you
> to do.
> =

> Warner

i a few times heard there was and IS a long standing stand-off between =

info(1) and man(1) because man was copyright at least in part and =

further reasons that were not discussed.

remove the ability to look at existing info pages of say m4.info why?

replace it with what ?

i'm impartial.  i like both, made a manpage maker, would like a good =

info editor haven't come across yet.  coolman in nonfree, tkinfo is =

free. debian won't allow manpages on it's user groups

do you know anything about this standoff between the online page and =

online manual systems ?

are you saying that whatever microbsd prefers should be the base of bsd ?

is microbsd used by Apple or something ?
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