From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 13 11: 2:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19E5837B41B for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:02:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDJ8el02057; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200112131908.fBDJ8el02057@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting rid of /usr file system (was: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:57:19 PST." <20011213105719.B4987@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:08:40 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:45:11AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: > > Since it has been this way since OpenBSD 2.5, if not earlier, I > > think it is safe to say that that is not a high-demand function > > of the OS by OpenBSD users. Thinking about it, I don't think I > > have ever printed a manual page. > > Well, count me on the list of people who would be pissed if someone > decided to do this. I'm all for installed the cat pages by default, but > nobody is going to take away "man -t" support without a fight. I print > manpages all the time when I want to read through them and I'll need > them for more then a few minutes. I'd have to agree; I'd much rather dump the whole catpages thing (it's a bad tradeoff, IMO; CPU speed is cheaper than disk space) but certainly dropping the ability to print manpages would just be stupid. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message