Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:44:38 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <20020115224438.I31328@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020116132917.K78030@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:29:17PM %2B1030 References: <200201151411.g0FEB6H82165@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020116132917.K78030@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 01:29:17PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
[snip]
> This won't help people installing from CD-ROM. It also takes up a lot
> of space.
Actually it doesn't. The catpages actually take less space than the
manpages,
$ du -ck /usr/share/man/man* | grep total
7186 total
$ du -ck /usr/share/man/cat* | grep total
5899 total
And I'd hardly call less than 6 MB "a lot of space" on any modern
HDD.
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