Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

[Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost>]

Please do. Thank you.

Le lun. 9 nov. 2020 à 19:09, Kamil Rytarowski <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost> a écrit :
>
> I propose to remove catman(8).
>
> The removal of all cat-man remnants was already implied during the
> proposal of drop MKCATPAGES, but it apparently was not clear enough.
>
> Rationale:
>  - cat pages are not generated by default since 2012 and almost nobody
> (except me?) used them in the past few years.
>  - This tool was removed from other BSDs by default and catman is not a
> part AFAICT of any Unix specification.
>  - Passing the documentation through mandoc(1) enables dynamic
> customization, while cat(1) cannot do much or anything as it operates on
> pre-generated .txt files.
>
> Personally. I recall cat-pages to be relevant on Coherent 80286
> UNIX-like OS, operating in real mode.
>
> Next, I propose to remove cat-man support from man(1) and man,conf(5).
>
> Patch minimum for man(1)/man.conf(5):
>
> http://netbsd.org/~kamil/patch-00286-stop-using-cat-dirs.txt
>
> Patch optimum is to remove the support for "_crunch", "_suffix" and
> eliminate all cat-man remnants from man.conf and man(1).
>