why we don't build ps/pdf of /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ ?
Simon L. B. Nielsen
simon at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 12 21:42:36 UTC 2012
On 12 Aug 2012, at 22:01, Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 23:45:04 +0100, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>>
>> On 10 Aug 2012, at 00:02, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> We build /usr/src/share/doc/usd/ into ascii
>>> documents. Is there a reason why we don't
>>> also build Postscript or PDF?
>>
>> I suspect since it was considered waste of space originally when it was set up.
>>
>> If anyone were to touch those docs I would suggest moving them to the doc repository instead of changing them where they currently exist as they don't really belong in src.
>
> I have this planned, but as with many things I hardly get to do any of
> them.
Slacking slacking slacking ;-).
On a more serious note, sounds great and I really do know the feeling.
> The move to doc is needed to cut groff out of the base system.
Ah, ok.
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Simon L. B. Nielsen
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