Subject: Re: Generation of html from man pages.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/22/2000 11:27:26
[ On Friday, September 22, 2000 at 09:05:33 (+0200), Bernd Ernesti wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Generation of html from man pages.
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to bloat the tree size.
> We don't provide a browser with the base system and not everyone
> wants the html pages.
Bloat? Those few changes are not bloat. Bloat is keeping two copies of
many GNU tools in source!
> We need at least an extra set for the html pages.
I didn't see anywhere a recommendation that such html output would
actually be shipped with binary releases. Indeed that would be
unnecessary bloat.
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