On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:12:15AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:34:57 +0100 > > From: Christian Brueffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:40:32AM +0200, Jarkko Santala wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Brueffer w= > > rites: > > > > >now that MAKEDEV has been gone for a while, the manpages (alpha and i3= > > 86) > > > > >can be nuked as well, right? > > > > > > > > Right. > > > > > > Although it might be considered dragging old baggage around, would it > > > make sense to instead of zapping the man page completely write a new one > > > that would at least give a clue on how things are done these days? > > > > > > Otherwise unclued people might just think there's something wrong with > > > their system because the man page is missing and get even more confused. > > > > > > -jake > > > > > > > Well, people are supposed to read UPDATING before updating the system. > > UPDATING already has an entry about this, so has the handbook, the > > release notes etc. > > > > I think we can't really help people that don't read the recommended > > documentation. > > I think POLA should apply to things like this (even across major > releases). MAKEDEV has been around for a long time and most folks are > used to it being there. It's simply something that most people assume > will be there on a Unix-like system. > > Yes, people should read UPDATING and, better still, the release > notes. But taking the added step of having a simple man page with a > pointer to the devfs paper and saying that MAKEDEV is no more there will > avoid a lot of confusion. > > The goal of documentation should not be to make it possible for > sophisticated users to use the system. It should make it as > easy as possible for all levels of users, including those new to Unix > and BSD to use the system. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > >
I'll write a small manpage this evening which says that MAKEDEV is gone now with a short summary of what devfs does. Does that resolve your worries? - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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