.Xr references to ports in man pages

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 12:34:17PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.04.25 16:46:18 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> 
> > To avoid having erroneous information in the manpages before someone
> > discovers that the category has been changed without the changer
> > remembering and/or bothering to search all the manpages and fix all the
> > unnecessary category references which have gone bad.  That's too much to
> > expect to happen, methinks.  Also, to avoid the need to handle the
> > PRs that will then be (eventually) written after nearly every change.
> > 
> > As for the SGML, the same thing applies, but I suspect it's too hard to
> > fix in the SGML processing, but I recommend easing SGML maintenance by
> > omitting the "CATEGORY/".  There's too much more useful stuff to
> > maintain, as it is, and "whereis" easily gives the category to anyone
> > who can't guess it.
> 
> Is this really a big problem?  I't not that often ports get moved and
> since there is ports/MOVED it is very easy to use a script to once in a
> while automatically go through the references in the documentation and
> fix the references.
> 
> If the category is not there it would also make it harder to make links
> to the port e.g. in man.cgi.
> 
> That being said if others feel it is better to not specify ports it OK
> with me.  I mainly want to get rid of "bad" references.
> 
Not, it's not OK with others.  Writing a simple script that finds
all port references and checks this with the fresh ports/ tree is
not that hard.  I've been planning on setting the manpages tinder
box; adding this feature to it would be trivial.


Cheers,
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