Subject: re: CVS commit: src
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/06/2005 08:20:54
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> 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.
>
> hmmm.. there is 21MB in /usr/share/man/cat* or so. adding the html
> versions seem like a waste of diskspace to me...
Depends on the platform. On a machine with a 300G hard drive, 21MB is
totally ignorable. On an old Vax, it is a big problem.
considering that there is not a reader in netbsd base it most
certainly is a waste of diskspace for a default install.
it's duplicated from what's in the man & cat pages, so we'd have
a 3rd version of the same information. i see no valid arguments
for turning on MKHTML by default.
.mrg.