Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/04/2005 11:04:37
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>
> On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> They already have a purpose. You can build HTML man pages already --
>> ross hacked the code. We just don't do it by default (though we could.)
>
> I believe that we should, in fact, enable this by default.
As a user, I think that html man pages are excessive bloat, HOWEVER, the
reason I came back to NetBSD is because of the documentation and man
pages.
So if I had my say, I'd have html man pages be a separate package (maybe
even in pkgsrc) that creates the documents from the sources.
--
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte