cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml
Denis Peplin
den at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 29 03:52:31 PDT 2004
Hello!
Ceri Davies wrote:
>>Alexey Zelkin wrote:
>>> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook book.sgml
>>> Log:
>>> Use absolute url while referencing main web site (not relative
>>> reference).
>>> I have two reasons to do this change:
>>>
>>> . We are referencing 'main web site', so need to refer *main* website
>>> . When handbook is installed on into /usr/share/doc, or mirrored
>>> on third part site (handbook only) -- this link is broken.
>>>
>>> Revision Changes Path
>>> 1.146 +1 -1 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.sgml
>>
>>We have another 59 relative links to our website:
>>find /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/ -name "*.sgml" -exec egrep '(\.\./){3,}' {}
>>\; | wc -l
>>
>>I can fix ( -> absolute) it all, if no objections.
>
>
> Please don't. Relative links let me install a local copy and look
> around it in the sure knowledge that I'm still on my local site, and it
> also allows people to install mirrors in a subdirectory of their main
> server or even their home directory.
>
> The one that phantom changed above specifically referred to the "FreeBSD
> web site" so is OK, but the others should stay.
>
> Ceri
ok, i will not fix this links, but my opinion is:
most peoples will never install local mirror, but will have broken links while
browsing /usr/share/doc
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