On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:35:03PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote: > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: > >What about keeping them in separated sets? Say man.tgz, man-cat.tgz, > >man-html.tgz... After all, cat manual pages can be generated on the > >fly (if text.tgz is installed, if I'm not wrong). > > > >FWIW, FreeBSD has man and catman. > > So has solaris, and I always hated that I had to run catman after > installation, which took _ages_. Conversely, I build NetBSD with MKCATPAGES=no. Partly because of the space, mostly because it adds time to the build, which I do far more often than I read each and every manpage. The setlists understand this, and all of the other MK* options I use to en/disable things, and life is good. HTML manpages should be no different. -- Dan.
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