Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:44:07 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of catman from base Message-ID: <20170912184407.GE99742@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com> References: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:42:00AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > All, > > I wanted to announce my intention to remove the catman utility. > > For those that are unaware, this utility (disabled by default) is > generally run out of a periodic job and causes the system to cache > pre-formatted man pages into the /usr/share/man/cat* directories. With > modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted > man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable. > > Please note, this will not disable the ability to render cat pages or in > any other way use existing cat pages, it just removes the utility that > builds the cat pages. As such, any ports that install cat pages will > continue to work. I forgot to mention this has a review out: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12317 Gordon
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