re: CVS commit: src

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005, matthew green wrote:

>   matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> 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.

        Would you object to it being in a separate set which is not
        installed by default?

        I can imagine some people wanting to extract and use just the HTML
        manpages on a non NetBSD box.

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