Proposed patch to inform users of fetchindex

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 31 15:59:30 PST 2005


On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:

> On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:58 PM, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:39:16PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> I can't help but think that the majority of users try to build their own
>>> index because they don't know that there is a better alternative. What
>>> would y'all think of the following patch?
> [ ...patch deleted... ]
>> Maybe it's even better to mention 'make fetchindex' instead of
>> 'fetchindex target', but on the whole I like this idea.
>
> Agreed, on both counts.

Thanks to both of you, and I'm totally fine if someone wants to change 
the language. The patch was just a POC.

Doug

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