> > 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
Jan Stary writes:
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?
[snip example]
Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system.
Absoultely not worth the hassle.
i personally agree, but
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
In practice, as I understand it, `so` doesn't achieve anything
for man
pages that can't be done with symbolic links and (importantly) a
man
page indexer that is symlink-aware. Perhaps `so` support was
preserved,
and its practice retained, for a long time becau
"G. Branden Robinson" writes:
In practice, as I understand it, `so` doesn't achieve anything
for man
pages that can't be done with symbolic links and (importantly) a
man
page indexer that is symlink-aware. Perhaps `so` support was
preserved,
and its practice retained, for a long time becau
[dropped the mandoc list; they won't let me post]
At 2023-04-30T13:44:09+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 07:05:55AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > The latter choice is a better one from a design perspective, in my
> > opinion, because it is more general. On the other ha
On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 07:05:55AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> The latter choice is a better one from a design perspective, in my
> opinion, because it is more general. On the other hand, man pages
> sourcing the text of pages from other sections on the manual seems about
> as unlikely as
At 2023-04-30T09:24:42+1000, Alexis wrote:
> Ping. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It's a small but
> persistent irritation on my system. :-)
Hi Alexis,
The groff(7) man page is pretty terse about this request. Our Texinfo
manual says more.
5.33 I/O
'gtroff' has several request
Ping. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It's a small but
persistent irritation on my system. :-)
Alexis writes:
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Hi all,
On my Gentoo system, awk.1 simply contains an .so request whose
argument is the man page for the actual awk implementation in
use,
i.e. just:
Hi all,
On my Gentoo system, awk.1 simply contains an .so request whose
argument is the man page for the actual awk implementation in use,
i.e. just:
.so gawk.1
However, although this works when using man-db, it doesn't when
one is using mandoc instead, as on my system. Instead of gawk
