Remove the documentation for optional patch files, which was removed some

time ago.

ok wiz@

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guide/files/components.xml b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
index f187209b2f6..f40bdbe3132 100644
--- a/doc/guide/files/components.xml
+++ b/doc/guide/files/components.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.1.1.1 2004/10/21 14:27:38 grant Exp $ -->
+<!-- $NetBSD: components.xml,v 1.2 2004/11/19 18:42:39 peter Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="components"> <?dbhtml filename="components.html"?>
   <title>Package components - files, directories and contents</title>
@@ -183,45 +183,6 @@ converters    games         mbone         print         x11</programlisting>
       <filename>patch-aa</filename> is applied before
       <filename>patch-ab</filename>, etc.</para>
 
-    <para> Patch files which are optional and will depend on local
-      site configuration can be included with names matching the
-      pattern <filename>patches/patch-optional-*</filename>. Their
-      suffixes should match the configuration options.  The selected
-      optional patch file names should be assigned to the variable
-      <varname>OPTIONAL_PATCHFILES</varname>.  They will not be
-      applied by default. 
-      </para>
-
-    <para> For example if a package data file needs patching to
-      indicate the default local printer paper size as specified in
-      the <varname>$PAPERSIZE</varname> file you can include patches
-      for all the possible paper sizes other than the one the package
-      comes configured for by default.  In this case you might have a
-      patch called
-      "<filename>patch-optional-Letter-papersize</filename>" and/or
-      another patch called
-      "<filename>patch-optional-A4-papersize</filename>".  In your
-      <filename>Makefile</filename> you would select between them with
-      the following construct:
-      </para>
-
-    <programlisting>            
-   PATCHDIR=    ${.CURDIR}/patches
-   .if exists(${PATCHDIR}/patch-optional-${PAPERSIZE}-papersize)
-        OPTIONAL_PATCHFILES+= ${PATCHDIR}/patch-optional-${PAPERSIZE}-papersize
-   .endif </programlisting>
-
-    <para> Note that you have to define the value of
-      <varname>PATCHDIR</varname> in order to use it in a
-      <quote><command>.if</command></quote> statement like this as
-      otherwise it's not defined until too late during the processing
-      of the Makefile.  You should use a
-      <quote><command>.if</command></quote> statement in order to
-      avoid problems should the configuration item
-      (<varname>$PAPERSIZE</varname> in this example) be set to an
-      unexpected value.
-      </para>
-      
     <para>The <filename>patch-*</filename> files should be in
       <command>diff -bu</command> format, and apply without a fuzz to avoid
       problems. (To force patches to apply