Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:24:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Changing 'man' to check alternate destination for 'cat' pages Message-ID: <20011214112449.M3448@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <p0510100bb83ddfa9e683@[128.113.24.47]> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com>
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On Thursday, 13 December 2001 at 10:14:01 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:01:03AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> Should I try my hand at implementing my idea, or is someone else already >> looking into it? >> > 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? The idea here is to have the catman pages in a different place. For example, the man pages may stay in /usr/share/man, while the catman pages may move to /var/share/catman or some such. The motivation here is that this would help make /usr read-only. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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