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Re: catman (Was: CVS commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles)



On 08.11.2020 23:20, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> It's (partially) past-tensed, which looks stupid and cripples the
> joke.

catman has zero to do with current UNIX or any other standard I checked
(SVID, XPG, POSIX, XNS, SUS, ISO, ANSI). It was a historical utility.
I've changed it to be relatively accurate for a historical reference to
Unix/BSD. I object to calling it a current Unix thing and suggesting to
users that they can find it in section 8.

If catman(8) is still delivered somewhere, it is documenting a dead toy.

On 09.11.2020 01:05, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 12:46:42AM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>> Also, come to think of it... Removing catman (i.e. user's ability to
>> generate cat pages) is rather different from removing MKCATPAGES,
>> what's going on here?
> 
> I asked kamil about something else on this topic and he mentioned
> catman.  On reading the man pages I didn't really see a reason for it
> to stay if we remove the cat pages completely.
> 
> Do you see it differently? If yes, why?
>  Thomas
> 

catman is still reachable for users (I still have no evidence that I was
not the last user of .cat pages in NetBSD) that really want it in
contrib/ of mandoc, but out of the distribution.

I'm still test-building the final removal and I will land it once I feel
comfortable about it.

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