Re: Importing the apropos GSoC code and switching to mandoc(1) by default

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> attached is the new apropos created by Abhinav Upadhyay during 
> last year's Summer of Code. I've added a small whatis(1) 
> implementation to round it up. This should be a functional 
> replacement for apropos(1) and whatis(1). It obsoletes 
> makewhatis(8).

I would like this to be added to the base system.

> At the same time, I would like to switch to using mandoc(1) for 
> man page formatting by default and disable cat page generation. 
> [...]
> I do not intend to disable groff and I don't intend to remove 
> the cat page functionality from man. So if a specific document 
> renders badly or not at all, it can always be pre-rended with 
> groff(1).

That sounds fine too.

--apb (Alan Barrett)