Quoting Sandy Harris (2013-06-01 12:38:37) > 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.
What use is an HTML representation of a manual page for a CLI tool, on a system not presenting a CLI to its users (only to its developers)? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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