Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:33:34 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <20020118103334.A54530@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20020118010701.F40472@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:07:01AM -0800 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020116145639.73036A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <p05101217b86b93b7e1cd@[128.113.24.47]> <20020117100308.B27310@sunbay.com> <p0510121fb86cbc57674c@[128.113.24.47]> <20020118010701.F40472@blossom.cjclark.org>
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As Crist J . Clark wrote: > Why's that? "Other OSes" do just distribute catpages. That used to be the case at the beginning of the 90's of last century. AT&T attempted to sell a polished-up troff as a `documenter's workbench', so they had to rip it off the base system. groff has more than filled the gap since. These days, Systems like Solaris and HP-UX ship with source man pages as well, where in Solaris, they recently switched to SGML-based man pages by default (but can handle custom-installed troff pages still). > (I'm not advocating installing catpages without manpages as the > default.) As a non-default, you've been getting this option with FreeBSD for many years already: just select the catpages distribution only when installing. (I originally created the catpages distribution when the junk computer at home i was using for testing was still a 386/sx16. It simply took too long on that machine to format man pages, so i thought the idea of a catpages distribution would be something neat for people with slow machines. ;-) -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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