Jonas Smedegaard <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting John Gilmore (2013-05-31 20:07:16)
>> The reason that the compressed man pages are there is that each >> installed Debian package includes its man pages ... >> >> The reason that the "man" command itself wasn't there is that nobody >> had asked for it yet. I'm sure it can be added to future builds. >> (But, I note that adding it also drags in the Groff text-processing >> package and the miscellaneous bsdmainutils package, which use another >> megabyte of space in the image.) > > An alternative to adding a man reader is to strip manpages and other > pieces irrelevant for a system not intended for CLI usage, e.g. using > localepurge. Another alternative would be to run groff during the build and make the formatted outputs available, as text or HTML. FreeS/WAN had code to do that with HTML output, including making all the cross references like ls(1) into links. -- Who put a stop payment on my reality check? _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
