You are spot on in your observation that MySQL is not OpenBSD. I used the lesson I learned in that succinct assertion to realize the distinction between a pkg-readme and a manual page, i.e., a pkg-readme is not a manual page, even if an OpenBSD developer wrote the pkg-readme!
Please pardon me for misappropriating words that pertain to manual pages from the "Welcome to OpenBSD x.x!" new install mail message to misapply them to a pkg-readme. To ensure that I don't mislead Mr. Ferguson, or any other new user of OpenBSD, I pasted below the context of the section of the "Welcome to OpenBSD x.x!" message from which I so carelessly borrowed in case anyone may have overlooked it: "Again, PLEASE READ THE MANUAL PAGES. Our developers have spent countless hours improving them so that they are clear and precise." I didn't mean to imply that perfection had been attained in the various forms of OpenBSD documentation, but, in my limited experience with OpenBSD, I have always been very impressed with the high quality of the OpenBSD documentation. OpenBSD documentation is so good, I never even thought to ask a question on @misc. Perhaps I should have, but, based on what I now know, I see that I didn't need to ask; I just had to read what was right in front of me. I believe what Mr. de Raadt expresses so sincerely in the "Welcome to OpenBSD x.x!" mail message regarding manual pages, and I think it best to follow his instructions and trust that he and the developers know what they're doing. As I learn and grow with OpenBSD, I may one day enjoy the privilege of contributing improvements to OpenBSD. I may not. It's just not easy to stand on the shoulders of giants, even if fallibly human. Certainly, room for improvement will always exist in every endeavor. I had hoped merely to assist Mr. Ferguson by instructing him to read the mysql-server-5.1.71v0 pkg-readme written by an OpenBSD developer for those who want to know precisely what to do in order to run mysql-server on their OpenBSD system as indicated by the title of the mysql-server pkg-readme. I hope also that what I've written above might encourage every new user of OpenBSD to READ the OpenBSD provided documentation regarding their specific installation before they prematurely post their questions to the list. Thank you for your kind clarification on the comments I made previously about OpenBSD documentation. Respectfully, Gilbert On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> wrote: > Gilbert Sanford [gilbertz....@gmail.com] wrote: >> You're welcome. Since the OpenBSD documentation is clear and precise, >> any cloud of confusion must be a product of my own defective thinking. >> So I keep going back to the documentation (I stay off Google for >> OpenBSD research) to push it in and push out the misunderstanding. > > MySQL is not OpenBSD. And while the various forms of OpenBSD documentaton may > attempt to be clear and precise, they aren't complete. There are always > improvements. > > -- > Semicolons; use them
