I see two reasons for wanting it default on.
   
   1) Things that are default off rot. MKHTML was default off, and lo, it
      rotted.

it was always rotten as far as i could tell.  the bugs wiz has been
documenting have always existed in mdoc2html.  (i take the point in
general, tho.)

   2) Many people actually would make use of the thing -- although we
      supply no web browser in the base install, it is a rare machine
      that doesn't actually come with one.

man.netbsd.org?


don't get me wrong.  i really like the functionality.  i just don't
see it having a default place in netbsd...


.mrg.