From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 18 1:40:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C91737B402; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:39:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id KAA07220; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:39:49 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0I9XYe55087; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:33:34 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:33:34 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: "Crist J . Clark" Cc: Garance A Drosihn , 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> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <20020117100308.B27310@sunbay.com> <20020118010701.F40472@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020118010701.F40472@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:07:01AM -0800 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 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