Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>>> [...single-user...man(1) fails EROFS...]
>>> OK, I see here a suggestion that in the year 2020, installed
>>> catpages save the day as the only way how to get a formatted
>>> manpage for publicly available operating system while in
>>> single-user without a read-write /tmp.

Only way?  No, of course not.  Especially since this was me, an expert
sysadmin, at home, where I have lots of other machines at hand.

If I had been at a remote location, with no other machine I have access
to at ready hand, then it could have been crippling.  (That could be
physically remote, or it could be simply in a co-lo data centre where I
have one machine and none of the hundreds or thousands of other
computers in the room are ones I have any access to.)

As it was, it was merely inconvenient.  But it was a significant
inconvenience.  9.1 has been handing me inconveniences ever since I
first started trying to install it; the only reason I'm putting up with
them at all is that I'm being paid to - and I've started taking steps
to get out of that job.

>>> And that is the reason to keep the tool in base.  For the record, I
>>> find this suggestion really bizzare.

For the record, I find the suggestion that _keeping_ the tool is
somehow the stance that requires justification really bizarre.

It seems to me that the onus to justify should be on the ones in favour
of change.

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