On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Alistair Crooks wrote:
BTW, why do we install HTML manpages now? Did I miss a HTML reader in base?You can serve up the HTML documents in base (including the manual pages) via the in-base http or ftp servers and read them remotely.Serious, who needs this? I think this should be an option that's off by default.I think it's more a question of going with the times - almost everything these days is HTML-based, and we need to take advantage of that and be part of it, rather than being in denial of it.
that's a reason for having an upto-date man.netbsd.org (which it is not!), not one of bloating every users' harddisk. - Hubert