Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

[Kamil Rytarowski <kamil%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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.