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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
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