Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:51:14 +0200 From: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: groff alternative? Message-ID: <200504262051.21729@harrymail> In-Reply-To: <426E8BE6.7090800@aueb.gr> References: <200504262010.49509@harrymail> <426E8BE6.7090800@aueb.gr>
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--nextPart3979307.R0PUZGRCoS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Dienstag, 26. April 2005 20:43 schrieb Diomidis Spinellis: > Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB > > including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don= 't > > build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it > > costs me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I > > moved my patches to /dev/null. > > Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages > > simply with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more > > space than all the manpages itself! > > Have you considered preformatting the manual pages on the development > system, and copying over the pages into /usr/share/man/cat* of the > shrinked-down system? > > > And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the > > flash card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages > > (which is another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no spa= ce > > limit, depending on the card and additional drives) > > Again, it appears your shrinked-down system has access to a more > powerful machine. You could modify man to run groff on the remote machin= e. That's a possible solution, but not the way I like it. If I once installed = one=20 of these embedded boxes and decide to add a small package it should be=20 possible to read the package's man page without any help of other machines.= =20 Also ordinary package-installation should work, so preformatting system man= =20 pages is a good idea but not applicable for the ports/packages. Thanks, =2DHarry --nextPart3979307.R0PUZGRCoS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCbo2pBylq0S4AzzwRAo5rAKCB3wa7pxiz0HiV9DkFPihR4VttOACghDkY cC6z8VpZENh9Fm6ajp9ltB4= =qoBB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3979307.R0PUZGRCoS--
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