Is there a way to tell sup NOT to clobber a file, most especially a .dist
file (used by mtree)?  I have certain modes I set locally and I'm getting
a bit tired of having to replace the mtree files every day after the sup
completes.

And, FWIW, I still think it's really silly not to have the cat* directories
world-writable/sticky.  I know the concerns about "but then someone else
could fill up the disk", but for man not to be able to regenerate cat-able
man pages on the fly is ludicrous.  I tried using setgid man, and that works
for man but fails for tkman (wish doesn't like referencing /dev/fd3, ap-
parently, because it only displays a blank square -- I might need a C
front-end for it :(  ).

The two statements above are related because every time I do an install
on my machine from .../pkgsrc, my man/cat* directories for /usr/local and
/usr/X11 get set back to 755 from 1777!

Having to replace the .dist files (which I'm currently doing) is a pain.

Oh, speaking of man->cat translations, has anyone else even given an ounce
of thought to enabling man to do this, thereby giving us a cache of recently-
used man pages?  I have some (admittedly lame) scripts which take care of
the man->cat bit, and I've modified /etc/weekly to go and clean out the
formatted pages which haven't been used in more than four days.



				--*greywolf;
--
Mankind should spend much more effort on education, escalating their levels of
intellect to those currently enjoyed by the upper minority, rather than forcing
the higher ones to lower themselves to the level of the average moron.  Until
this happens, we will not truly advance our species, we'll only perpetuate it.