Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:10:40 +0200 From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> To: Andrew Lankford <lankfordandrew@charter.net>, current@freebsd.org, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/man8/MAKEDEV.8 Message-ID: <20071104121040.GA12743@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0400, Andrew Lankford wrote: > Sounds good, but what about: > > 1) adding rm /usr/share/man/ to the appropriate Makefile(s). Is the > issue the possibility of mucking up any port or third party app that > also writes to /usr/share/man? No. And even if so, then this is a mistake, and the sooner it will be found the better. But deleting whole /usr/share/man by default little to radical, I think. > 2) getting rid of catman and forcing man to generate a new one from > scratch each time instead of filling up /usr/share/man/cat* with stale > files. Is this going to be a big drain on a p4-era pc compared to > something like another periodic.conf script? > > or > > 3) A compile or run-time option that disables catman as described above. > If I knew of one, I'd enable it without a second thought on my cutting > edge p3 desktop :) Put weekly_catman_enable="NO" in your /etc/periodic.conf -- Adios
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