Monday, March 02, 2020

Re: Web documentation available offline by default?

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 01:30:02AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:

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> Besides, the FAQ only applies to -stable and not to -current, so
> installing it on a -current system would be badly misleading.
> And we certainly don't want the release(8) process to work differently
> for -current and -stable: -current is where most of the testing for
> -stable gets done, so it should better be as similar as possible or
> we would be in for surprises at release time, or even worse, for
> surprises after release.
>

Indeed. It could probably make sense though to have it as a tar.gz in
the -stable folder, along with src.tar.gz, sys.tar.gz, ports, and
xenocara, so that it's readily available through mirrors.

My2cents

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