Please do. Thank you.
Le lun. 9 nov. 2020 à 19:09, Kamil Rytarowski <ka...@netbsd.org> 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). >
