Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:33:04 -0500 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman Message-ID: <20090621173304.GA89146@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <86skhty76e.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200906191552.n5JFqZcG047705@svn.freebsd.org> <20090620130238.N29302@delplex.bde.org> <20090621134826.GA44901@FreeBSD.org> <86skhty76e.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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--5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all > > these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? >=20 > Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board: >=20 > http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm For such hardware, the OpenBSD mdoc renderer is likely to be a better fit anyway. It's orders of magnitude faster than *roff and wouldn't waste space on catpages that will in all likely hood never be used. -- Brooks --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFKPm7QXY6L6fI4GtQRAmb9AJ9rJIdsXQpXOhZTnI6Pq9tGs4He8wCg1j0G bkQXZ1z1tQrcysSKc8gUJME= =sbGr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP--
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