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Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)



I'm thinking the opposite. I'm getting tired of people taking it upon
themselves to "fix" things.

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:

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.


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