Hi, Anthony J. Bentley wrote on Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 06:47:04AM -0700:
> The Open English Bible I think adding this as a port is a bad idea. While "something is software that can be run on OpenBSD and that at least one developer or at least some users want to run on OpenBSD" may be a good enough reason to add something to ports (even though there are exceptions even to that, like certain kinds of web applications, or libraries used by no other ports), "something is a book and at least one developer wants to read it" does not look like a good enough reason to add something to ports/books. I think anything under ports/books ought to have at least some kind of a relation to OpenBSD, UNIX, or to major programming languages that can be used under OpenBSD. I don't see why ports/books should become a library of random books with no relation whatsoever to the project. Besides, i think Solene is right that installing mere PDF files provides relatively little benefit compared to having the user simply store them somewhere below /home/. A books port mostly makes sense when the contained files can be used in non-trivial ways with software. The best example probably being that man-pages-posix can be used with the man(1) -M option. Though i admit even that case is not fully convincing yet because mandoc(1) is still unable to properly format the POSIX standards documents, with the consequence that they have to be installed preformatted and support for semantic searching is unavailable. But you get the idea: the man-pages-posix port is potentially more useful than merely downloading a big PDF file. Yours, Ingo
