Re: Getting rid of catpages from pkg_install

[Julio Merino <jmmv%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
>> I've seen that pkg_install provides catpages and installs them
>> unconditionally, but that's suboptimal because the pregenerated
>> manpages contain, e.g., headers that are not suitable for all systems
>> or formatting guidelines that are inconsistent with the rest of the
>> system.  I want to only install the catpages if needed and skip them
>> for all platforms with mdoc support. (*)
>
> Please just leave this alone. At some point in the near future I will
> kill cat pages in general.

Oh, and when will that be?  If it won't be anytime soon, we shouldn't
hold back fixes to broken stuff.  You can later kill these changes
anyway when the pages are gone.

-- 
Julio Merino