From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 13 0:21: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4998D37B417; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBD8L1a89587; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:21:01 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBD8L0M43025; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:21:00 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200112130821.fBD8L0M43025@harmony.village.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:14:01 +0200." <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> References: <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 01:21:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> Ruslan Ermilov writes: : Sorry, but I don't quite understand what are you looking at. : We already have a manpath(1) facility, that could be used : to configure alternate manual pathes. Is that not sufficient? I wondered this myself... I just assumed that man put the cached version in the same path it found the original, with the last man translated to cat. : What's the goal of doing this? I missed the original thread. Make it possible to have a read only /usr and still cache man pages. However, CPU time is so cheap that we should install the CAT versions or run catman at the end of installworld. I know that NetBSD and OpenBSD both build and install the cat pages. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message