> > The problem with symlinks is that they need to be updated to match > > manpage compression. `.so` works with any compression used for the > > manpage.
That's not a problem with symlinks, but a problem with manpage compression. Why would anyone compress manpages? How much space does that save overall? OpenBSD: 43.6M /usr/share/man/ 36.6M /usr/local/man/ 17.4M /tmp/man.tar.gz macOS: 133M /Library/Developer//CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.3.sdk/usr/share/man 25M /usr/share/man/ 57M /tmp/man.tar.gz Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system. Absoultely not worth the hassle.
