Re: catman in pkgsrc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:42:33PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:52:30 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:19:33PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>What is the reason why installation of cat man pages are disabled so 
> >>aggressively in pkgsrc?
> >
> >They often serve no purpose, aren't provided consistently and require
> >special tools to prepare.
> 
> Following tow point?
> * let PLIST handling to be simplify (kill conditional)
> * prevent dependency on nroff (or something)

Killing cat pages completely will take some time. For example, I still
haven't gotten any comment on the imake patch. Correct about nroff.

> >>Interix's man(1) only display cat man pages, but I cannot find catman
> >>(or alternatives) in pkgsrc.
> >
> >A good part of the logic for writing catman can be found in
> >obsolete_catpages() in NetBSD's postinstall. Instead of removing the
> >entry, calling "mandoc $mandir/$manpage > $catname" should be good
> >enough. A bit more work is needed to remember all cat pages checked and
> >to remove remaining ones, but that's left as exercise for the reader :)
> 
> I cannot find `mandoc' in pkgsrc.

textproc/mdocml.

Joerg