From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Dec 13 16:54:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E12137B417; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:54:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 90FB1786E3; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:24:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:24:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Peter Wemm , Nik Clayton , Warner Losh , 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> References: <20011212001610.9AEA739EA@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011213101401.C77774@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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