On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
that's a reason for having an upto-date man.netbsd.org (which it is not!), not one of bloating every users' harddisk.It isn't "bloat". As Alistair says, we now live in new times. HTML is what most people want and expect when browsing such things.
As was already said, that's bogus from the start. Esp. as we can't even use them in a decent way from NetBSD.
If you find that you don't have enough room for it, just build without it. That's why the option is there.
I don't build, I install from binaries. How can I not install HTML there? - Hubert