On 11.11.2020 14:42, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 11.11.2020 06:33, Valery Ushakov wrote: >> Kamil, you keep confusing mechanism and policy. > > I note that some people still missed that after marking the MKCATPAGES > files obsolete, every NetBSD/z80 users relying on catman(8) (thus even > FUZIX/z80 uses dynamic man-pages formatting!) will wipe cat dirs on each > update. I also note that these people insisting on keeping the cat/ dirs > have no slight idea how catman(8) does work (hint: it is aware about... > mkdir(2)) > > In the context of objections from people unaware how does catman(8) work > at all, I accept that the most serious argument for keeping MKCATPAGES > is that I use window(1). >
I note that I've received some off-list complains, after the reintroduction of MKCATPAGES, that can lead to the reduction of the developer pool in the project.
