On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:56:15AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:10:37AM +0000, Roland Illig wrote:
> >
> >>Module Name:	pkgsrc
> >>Committed By:	rillig
> >>Date:		Mon Jul 24 08:10:37 UTC 2006
> >>
> >>Modified Files:
> >>	pkgsrc/net/tnftp: Makefile PLIST
> >>	pkgsrc/net/tnftp/files/src: Makefile.in
> >>
> >>Log Message:
> >>For consistency with the other tools from bootstrap, the preformatted
> >>manual page is installed as cat1/ftp.0 instead of cat1/ftp.1. Bumped
> >>PKGREVISION.
> >
> >
> >In fact, I'd prefer if no cat pages would be installed at all.
> 
> On Solaris, it's the only way to get readable man pages at all. You are 
> still free to set MANINSTALL=maninstall (the default is "maninstall 
> catinstall"), but most packages won't honour that setting. Looks like 
> another regression bulk build for you. :)

I don't mean that the *framework* should not handle manpage compilation
as part of the post-install work, just that packages should install only
raw pages and the platform magic decide if/how to compile them.

Joerg